Trade Policy
Letter to the Editor
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Other |
Language: | en_US |
Published: |
2021
|
Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131089 |
_version_ | 1826204775656456192 |
---|---|
author | Ashford, Nicholas |
author_facet | Ashford, Nicholas |
author_sort | Ashford, Nicholas |
collection | MIT |
description | Letter to the Editor |
first_indexed | 2024-09-23T13:01:12Z |
format | Other |
id | mit-1721.1/131089 |
institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
language | en_US |
last_indexed | 2024-09-23T13:01:12Z |
publishDate | 2021 |
record_format | dspace |
spelling | mit-1721.1/1310892021-07-15T03:16:32Z Trade Policy Ashford, Nicholas Letter to the Editor In an otherwise insightful and thoughtful article, Sebastian Pfotenhauer (Trade Policy Is Science Policy,” Issues, Fall 2013) might better have entitled his contribution “Trade Policy Needs to Be Reconciled with Science Policy.” The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the agreements administered by the World Trade Organization, particularly the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), were adopted to promote international trade and increase the economic benefits therefrom. Harmonization of environmental, health, and safety, and (EHS) standards and practices was generally not the goal of these agreements, except perhaps for the TBT agreement, which was predicated on EHS standards being based on “strong science” that could result in uniformity dictated by rigorous scientific consensus focused on risk assessments. 2021-07-14T16:49:29Z 2021-07-14T16:49:29Z 2014 Other https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131089 Science and Technology en_US Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ application/pdf |
spellingShingle | Ashford, Nicholas Trade Policy |
title | Trade Policy |
title_full | Trade Policy |
title_fullStr | Trade Policy |
title_full_unstemmed | Trade Policy |
title_short | Trade Policy |
title_sort | trade policy |
url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131089 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT ashfordnicholas tradepolicy |