A higher tax on the activity increases the cost of engaging in it, which has the dual effects of reducing the production of negative externalities and extracting more compensation from those that still engage in the activity. [...] All else equal, the greater the expected harms of a waste import’s negative externalities, the higher the import tariff on the waste product. [...] In 2021, the Malaysian Minister of Environment stood in front of bales of imported waste products, promising that Malaysia will not “become the garbage dump of the world.”26 Bloomberg reporters described the wafting “stench of curdled milk” and the sight of “maggot-infested rubbish” as the minister spoke—newsworthy EOL waste mixed in with what I’m guessing was imported municipal solid waste (HS 38. [...] 37 “General Office of the State Council on the issuance of a ban on the entry of foreign garbage to promote the reform of the solid waste import management system” State Office [2017] No. [...] On the other hand, for the three years before the China ban, I cannot reject the null that the distributions were the same for banned and other waste products, while a significant difference does appear in each of the three years following the China ban.43 Further, the correlations between the distribution-based Pre-ban 95% treatment and the Asia-Pacific treatment is very low, at 0.17, making it m.
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