IISD provides insights on aspects of World Trade Organization (WTO) members' plastics that have created friction with trading partners and suggests recommendations for the adoption of such policies in the future. The authors identify the nature and categories of the issues that have been raised. This policy brief aims to help policy-makers avoid possible friction that may emerge because of trade-related policy measures aimed at reducing plastic pollution.
Authors
Ieva Baršauskaitė, Tristan Irschlinger, Vicente Guazzini, Andrew Aziz
- Pages
- 21
- Published in
- Canada
- Rights
- IISD, 2024
Table of Contents
- 1.0 Introduction 4
- 2.0 An Overview of Measures 6
- 3.0 STCs: Identifying dominant types of issues 9
- 3.1 Timing and Implementation Time Frame 10
- 3.2 Transparency 10
- 3.3 Absence of Stakeholder Engagement 11
- 3.4 Proportionality 11
- 3.5 Justification 12
- 3.6 Discrimination 13
- 4.0 TPR Questions: An overview of issues raised 14
- 5.0 Conclusions 16
- References 18
- Appendix A. Data and Methodology 20
