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Trade Agreements, Competition, and the Environment: Gridlock at the Crossroads: Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Extract

Seale and Fairchild cover an ambitious array of issues in their paper on “Trade Agreements, Competition, and the Environment”. Perhaps it is this ambition that leads their discussion to be too generalized in some areas. Their paper is organized into several sections: (1) a review of trade theory and generalizations about resource use (“GATT or NAFTA, Does it matter?”); (2) issues that link trade and environmental policy; (3) observations on shifts in U.S. trade policy behavior; and (4) perspectives on the changes and adjustment facing southern agriculture. I would like to challenge some of their assertions about regional trading blocs, and the environment and resource use.

Type
Invited Papers and Discussions
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1994

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