WTO에서 무역과 환경

Abstract

Trade and Environment in WTO Hyung-Jin Jung The trade and environment debate is not new. The link between trade and environmental protection, consisting of both the impact of environmental policies on trade, as well as the impact of trade on the environment, was recognized as early as 1970. Towards the end of the Uruguay Round, attention was once again drawn to trade-related environmental issues, and the role of the newly emerging WTO in the field of trade and environment. It has been widely recognized by both environmental and trade policy-makers that multilateral solutions to transboundary environmental problems are preferable to unilateral solutions. Article XX on General Exceptions lays out a number of specific instances in which WTO Members may be exempted from GATT rules. Two exceptions(paragraphs(b) and (g)) are relevant to environmental protection. GATT Art. XX(b) and (g) allow WTO members to justify GATT-inconsistent policy measures if these are either necessary to protect human, animal or plant life of health, or if the measures relate to the conservation of exhaustible natural resou