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| The Environment Before the Southern Common Market – MERCOSUR Araújo Lima Neto, Roberto de |
| Haupttitel | The Environment Before the Southern Common Market – MERCOSUR |
| Titelzusatz | An Analysis of the Retreated Tires Dispute |
| Autor | Araújo Lima Neto, Roberto de |
| Seitenzahl | 65 S. |
| Fachbereich/Einrichtung | Externe Anbieter |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2012 |
| Dokumente | pdf-Datei
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| Freie Schlagwörter | retreated tires; WTO; GATT; environmental exception; Brazil; MERCOSUR |
| DDC | 330 Wirtschaft 333 Energie- und Landschaftsökonomie |
| Dokumententyp/-Sammlungen | Monographie/Text |
| Medientyp/Format | Text |
| Abstract | In 2001, the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, an exporter of retreated tires, ignited the Mercosur´s Dispute Settlement Mechanism to challenge the Brazilian restrictive measures on the import of retreated tires. In 2006 another retreated tires exporter, the European Union, comes before the World Trade Organization – WTO – to challenge the Brasilia´s Policy and thus setting the first WTO case in which a developed country challenges an environmental measure taken by a developing country. What is the most remarkable in the present case, however, is how the Brazilian response to the complaints abruptly shifted from a mere juridical ground, within the Mercosur, into an environmental one, within the WTO. Why? At a first sight, the first reason that comes to mind to justify the Brazilian diplomatic contradiction is that, to the contrary of the WTO law, the Mercosur law did not offer a proper consideration to the environmental problematique. This is the hypothesis this paper intends to verify, always limited and driven by these two retreated tires cases. |
| Inhalt | List of Acronyms and Abbreviations…………………………………..……….. 6 Introduction………………………………………………….…………..…………….. 7 Chapter 1: The Trade and Environment Interrelation Foreword…………………………………………………………………………..……. 9 I The Trade and Environment Nexus: A Convergence and Conflict Debate…….. ……. 10 a) The Trade-Environment Nexus Before 1990……………………..………. 12 b) The Trade/Environment Nexus: 1990 onwards…………………..…… .13 II - Environmental Harmonization Within International Fora a) The WTO……………………………………………………………..….... 15 b) Regional Free Trade Agreements……………………………………..….. 17 c) International Dispute Settlement……………………………………..…… 19 Chapter 2: The Retreated Tires Case Before the Mercosur Dispute Settlement Mechanisms: Overlooking the Environmental Factor I - The waste tires problem…………………………………………………………….... 21 II - The Brazilian trade policy restrictions: triggering an international conflict……..….. 23 III - A Brief Introduction to Mercosur´s Dispute Settlement Mechanisms…………..…. 25 IV - The Dispute´s Procedural Background………………………………….. …26 V - The Uruguay Allegation…………………………………………………………..… 28 VI - The Brazilian Defense……………………………………………………………… 30 VII - The Decision: El VIº Laudo del Tribunal Arbitral ad hoc del Mercosur (TAHM)... 33 Chapter 3: The Case before the WTO: Shifting to an Environmental Rationale I - The Procedural Background……………………………………………...………… 36 II - The European Allegation a) Material facts……………………………………………..………………….. 38 b) Legal facts……………………………………………………………………. 41 III – The Brazilian Defense a) Material facts………………………………………………………………… 47 b) Legal facts…………………………………………………………………… 49 Chapter 4: The Relevance of the Environment within the Mercosur I - The Mercosur treatment on the Environment………………………… …52 II - Environmental Embargo on a Practical Case: The Mercosur Problematic of the Retreated Tires Trade Relaunched a) The Case………..…………………………………………………………….. 56 b) The Decision………………………………………………………………….. 57 c) The Decision of the Permanent Appeals Tribunal………… ………59 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………. 62 Selected Bibliography…………………………………………………………… 64 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Rechte | Nutzungsbedingungen |
| Zugriffstatistik | |
| Statische URL | http://edocs.fu-berlin.de/docs/receive/FUDOCS_document_000000014172 |
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| Erstellt am | 23.08.2012 - 14:52:31 |
| Letzte Änderung | 06.09.2012 - 22:09:48 |
