The World Trade Organisation: The new world constitution laid bare

Ecologist

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 270-275

  Shrybman, Steven ^a  

^a West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation   (Canada)

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ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; LEGISLATION; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0032817389     PISSN: 02613131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. See The Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations: The Legal Texts, Reprinted by the WTO in 1995 - ISBN 92-870-1124-4.
2. Among the various trade agreements for which the WTO has responsibility is the original General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) as that agreement has been amended, and a number of other agreements that are specific to various aspects of international trade such as agriculture, technical regulation, investment, services and intellectual property.
3. See for example, Robert Reich, The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for the 21st Century Capitalism 113 (1992).
4. The Federal Minister for International Trade in response to a question posed on the House of Commons Order Paper, see Frank Tester, "Free Trading the Environment", in Duncan Cameron, ed., The Free Trade Deal, Toronto: Lorimer and Company, 1988.
5. With the exceptions of Friends of the Earth, the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, other major US environmental groups were willing to support the first major initiative of a newly-elected President in consideration of these marginal reforms. In Canada, environmental groups were almost unanimous in their opposition.
6. See Lalumière and Landau, "Report on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)"; published by France's Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry, 1999.
7. Op.cit. 1