Trade and Environment at the WTO

The WTO at Ten, July 2006.
By Giorgio Sacerdoti, Alan Yanovich and Jan Bohanes.

The World Trade Organization and sustainable development: A guide to the debate, December 2005
By Duncan Brack, Chatham House

Disclosure Requirements: Ensuring mutual supportiveness between the WTO TRIPS Agreement and the CBD, November 2005.
By IUCN, ICTSD, CIEL, IDDRI, QUNO.

Trade and the Environment: Where Do We Stand After Doha
Presentation by Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, CIEL, at Conference on WTO’s contribution to sustainable development governance:
Balancing opportunities and threats, Paris, 20 & 21 October 2005 Doha Round Briefing on Trade and Environment Negotiations, February 2003, August 2003, December 2004 and November 2005.

By ICTSD and IISD. Report on Trade, Environment and the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism, June 2005.
By Richard Tarasofsky, Chatham House. Putting Development First: The Importance Of Policy Space In The WTO, 2005.
Edited by Kevin P. Gallagher.

Trade and Environment in the WTO: After Cancún, February 2004.
By Duncan Brack & Thomas Branczik, RIIA.

United States — Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products. WTO case No. 61. Request for consultations by the Philippines, 25 October 1996

United States -- Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products. WTO case Nos. 58 and 61. Ruling adopted on 6 November 1998. Case brought by India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Thailand.
Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU. Ruling adopted on 21 November 2001. Case brought by Malaysia.

European Communities-Trade Description of Sardines. WTO Case No. 231. Case brought by Peru against the EC; Third Parties: Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, United States; Panel Report, 29 May 2002; Appellate Body Report, 26 September 2002; Mutually Agreed Solution notified: 29 July.

Australia--Measures Affecting Importation of Salmon.
WTO Case No. 18, brought by Canada. Third Participants EC, India, Norway and the US. Report of the Panel, 12 June 1998. Appellate Body Report, 20 October 1998; Article 21.3(c) Arbitration Report, 23 February 1999; Article 21.5 Panel Report, 18 February 2000

United States — Restrictions on Imports of Tuna, the “tuna-dolphin” case
Case brought by Mexico under the GATT. Ruling not adopted, circulated on 3 September 1991.

United States — Restrictions on Imports of Tuna, “son of tuna-dolphin”
Case brought by EU under the GATT. Ruling not adopted, circulated on 16 June 1994.

United States - Prohibition of Imports of Tuna and Tuna Products from Canada.
Case brought by Canada under the GATT. Ruling adopted on 22 February 1982.

European Communities - Measures affecting asbestos and asbestos-containing products.
WTO case No. 135, brought by Canada; Third Parties: Brazil, Zimbabwe, United States. Panel Report, 18 September 2000; Appellate Body Report, 12 March 2001

European Communities — Measures Concerning Meat and Meat Products (Hormones). WTO Case No. 48, brought by Canada; Third Parties: Australia, New Zealand, Norway, United States. Panel Report, 18 August 1997; Appellate Body Report, 16 January 1998; Article 21.3(c) Arbitration Report, 29 May 1998; Recourse to Article 22.6 Arbitration Report, 12 July 1999.

United States -- Standards for Reformulated and Conventional Gasoline. Short title: US — Gasoline
WTO case No. 2, brought by Venezuela; Third Parties: European Communities, Norway. Panel Report, 29 January 1996; Appellate Body Report, 29 April 1996.

United States -- Standards for Reformulated and Conventional Gasoline. Short title: US — Gasoline
WTO case No. 4, brought by Brazil. Request for Consultations by Brazil, 10 April 1995.

United States — Taxes on Automobiles
GATT Case brought by EU. Ruling not adopted, circulated on 11 October 1994.