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Greening Trade Remedies

Environmental Considerations in the Law and Practice of WTO Trade Remedies

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Authors:
  1. Pieter Van Vaerenbergh

    1. Brussels, Belgium

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  • Develops a framework for expanding the scope of trade remedies to alleviate environmental harm and competitive injury
  • Analyses environmental protection standards as government distortions in light of recent WTO jurisprudence
  • Addresses the question of how to reconcile environmental considerations and the law on WTO trade remedies

Part of the book series: European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR, volume 31)

Part of the book sub series: EYIEL Monographs - Studies in European and International Economic Law (EYIELMONO)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Pieter Van Vaerenbergh
    Pages 1-6

  3. A Role for Trade Remedies in Greening International Trade?

    • Pieter Van Vaerenbergh
    Pages 7-23

  4. WTO Rules for Greening Trade Remedies

    • Pieter Van Vaerenbergh
    Pages 25-48

  5. The Use of Trade Remedies on Green Goods

    • Pieter Van Vaerenbergh
    Pages 49-90

  6. Low Environmental Standards and the ASCM Rules

    • Pieter Van Vaerenbergh
    Pages 91-131

  7. Low Environmental Standards and the ADA Rules

    • Pieter Van Vaerenbergh
    Pages 133-176

  8. Low Environmental Standards and the SGA Rules

    • Pieter Van Vaerenbergh
    Pages 177-182

  9. Environmental Injury and Trade Remedy Rules

    • Pieter Van Vaerenbergh
    Pages 183-207

  10. Concluding Remarks

    • Pieter Van Vaerenbergh
    Pages 209-213

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 215-221
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About this book

This book explores the role of trade remedies in liberalising environmental trade and discouraging environmentally harmful trade. As trade remedies can pose a significant obstacle to environmental trade, this book outlines how trade negotiators can implement restrictions on the application of trade remedies on environmental goods. It also assesses whether and how investigating authorities can account for differences in environmental protection standards in trade remedy investigations and considers what a possible 'trade remedy' for environmental harm might look like. Although the book concludes that trade remedies will remain a trade instrument primarily driven by economic and competitiveness concerns, it demonstrates how environmental considerations can guide trade remedy policy, how investigating authorities can properly account for the environmental costs of production, and how the limited policy space available in the WTO Agreements on Trade Remedies can be used to pursue green policy goals.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Brussels, Belgium

    Pieter Van Vaerenbergh

About the author

Pieter Van Vaerenbergh is an international trade and customs lawyer in Brussels. He is also a teaching assistant for EU law at the Institute for European Law of KU Leuven, a lecturer at the Europa-Institut of Saarland University and an editorial board member for the Zeitschrift for Europarechtliche Studien (ZEuS). Pieter obtained his PhD in Law from Saarland University, where he was a research associate specialising in international trade law, trade remedies, and international dispute resolution. During his PhD research, he interned at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and coached the Saarland Vis Moot team.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Greening Trade Remedies

  • Book Subtitle: Environmental Considerations in the Law and Practice of WTO Trade Remedies

  • Authors: Pieter Van Vaerenbergh

  • Series Title: European Yearbook of International Economic Law

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38172-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38171-3Published: 29 September 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38174-4Due: 30 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38172-0Published: 28 September 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2364-8392

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-8406

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 221

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: International Economic Law, Trade Law, Civil Law, Environmental Policy, International Economics

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