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Environment's New Role in U.S. Trade Policy
The Trade Act of 2002 integrates environmental policy priorities into U.S. trade negotiations. Resulting tensions between trade and environment requires greater involvement by Congress. Of particular short-term importance to Congress should be how bilateral negotiations with Chile and Singapore are concluded and regional negotiations with Central America begun.
Published on Sep 23, 2002
Source: Carnegie
The Trade Act of 2002 integrates environmental policy priorities into U.S. trade negotiations. The manner in which resulting tensions between trade and environment are resolved requires greater involvement by Congress. Of particular short-term importance to Congress should be how bilateral negotiations with Chile and Singapore are concluded and regional negotiations with Central America begun.
Congress should also use its oversight power to develop clearer instructions regarding a host of environmental policy issues, including investment and services negotiations, environmental reviews of trade agreements, and clarification of U.S. foreign assistance regarding technical assistance and capacity building for our trading partners. In short, TPA presents Congress with the leverage its needs to oversee trade negotiations, an opportunity to work with the administration and win back public support for U.S. trade policy that respects worker rights and protection of the environment.
Click on link above for full text of this TED Policy Brief in English and Spanish.
About the Author
John Audley is the director of the Endowment's Trade, Equity, and Development Project. He is the author of Politics and Parallel Negotiations: Environment and Trade in the Western Hemisphere (Carnegie Endowment Working Paper No. 25) and Overhauling the WTO: Opportunity at Doha and Beyond(Carnegie Endowment Policy Brief No. 6).
The Trade, Equity, and Development (TED) Series is part of an effort by Carnegie's Trade, Equity, and Development Project to broaden the debate surrounding trade liberalization to include perspectives not normally present in the Washington policy community.
About the Author
Mr. John Audley
Former Senior Associate
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