The MERCOSUR and WTO retreaded tires dispute: rehabilitating regulatory competition in international trade and environmental regulation

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dc.contributor.advisorHansen, Patricia Iselaen
dc.creatorMorosini, Fabio Costa, 1977-en
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-29T00:00:43Zen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-11T22:18:52Z
dc.date.available2008-08-29T00:00:43Zen
dc.date.available2017-05-11T22:18:52Z
dc.date.issued2007-12en
dc.description.abstractBrazil is currently immersed in the project of building a new common market, known as MERCOSUR, with its neighbors Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. It has largely been assumed that this project will produce economic growth and therefore be beneficial for the environment. However, this assumption has recently come into question, as a result of Brazilian and Argentinean efforts to regulate the environmental and health risks associated with retreaded tire imports. Despite the protests of environmentalists, MERCOSUR and WTO tribunals have now issued three separate decisions finding that these measures violate international trade rules. This dissertation examines whether these decisions were correctly decided in light of the relevant scholarly literature on the relationship between trade liberalization and environmental protection, and on regulatory competition theory. I argue that the test applied by WTO and MERCOSUR panels in trade and environment disputes gives insufficient weight to the lessons learned from this literature, and that future panels should adopt a new approach that explicitly draws on these lessons. I then attempt to apply this new approach to the retreaded tire dispute, based on my own examination of the relevant economic and scientific data, and individual interviews I conducted with representatives of the Brazilian government, the Brazilian tire industry, and MERCOSUR.en
dc.description.departmentLatin American Studiesen
dc.format.mediumelectronicen
dc.identifier.oclc209725846en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/3641en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.rightsCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en
dc.subject.lcshMERCOSUR (Organization)en
dc.subject.lcshWorld Trade Organizationen
dc.subject.lcshTires--Retreading and recappingen
dc.titleThe MERCOSUR and WTO retreaded tires dispute: rehabilitating regulatory competition in international trade and environmental regulationen
dc.title.alternativeRehabilitating regulatory competition in international trade and environmental regulationen
dc.type.genreThesisen

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