Environmental Standards and Trade Volume

Public Concerns, Environmental Standards and Agricultural Trade

Synopsis There is great concern among the public in general, and consumers in particular, about the quality of the environment in relation to agriculture. Such concerns focus on issues such as pollution from agriculture, the quality of landscapes, animal welfare and food safety. As a result, many countries have developed a range of standards, codes of good practice and other policy measures. Th...

Environmental Product Standards in North-South Trade

One channel through which environment is damaged is consumption. To protect environment, various product standards are introduced all over the world. By using a new economic geography framework, this paper explores the effects of environmental product standards on environment in a North-South trade model. We examine a situation in which North unilaterally introduces an environmental product sta...

Trade AND Labor Standards

LABOUR AND ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS: the “Lemons Problem” in International Trade Policy

Environmental and labour standards have become an important international trade issue. This article examines and ranks alternative trade policy responses available to an importing country with concerns over such standards. While a full import embargo may sometimes be preferable to allowing unrestricted access to unlabeled non-conforming imports, a partial embargo that allows imports which demon...

Social Standards in International Trade