INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL

TRADE ASSIGNMENT 4

Professor: Simon Robinson

Student ID number: 1109100051

Student Name: Yu-Wen WANG

ENHGLISH DEPARTMENT
 Question 1 : What is the main critique (criticism/challenge)

against the WTO with respect to environmental protection?

How does the WTO justify its position on trade disputes that

involve environmental issues?

Some anti-globalization activists claim that growing

international trade harms the environment automatically, and

that WTO is an organization having the effect of stopping an

environmental action. Although these arguments are not entirely

correct, global trade still has some negative environmental

impacts. For example, developing countries rely on these global

trading companies to make money, and they cannot afford to

maintain environmental standards of rich countries. As a result,

while we see the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and

environmental damages in rich countries, they are just

transferring the environmental costs to those poorer countries.