In general, a reduction in trade barriers will affect the environment by expanding the scale of economic activity, by …. We investigate whether the size of pollution abatement costs in US industry influences the pattern of international trade … effect of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on pollution in Mexico. …

water quality. Pollution may rise with growth, because an increased scale of economic activity means more emissions, ceteris … pollution there is no evidence at all that a turning point has yet been reached. The paper goes on to discuss the economic …

The current Paper addresses the relationship between trade and endogenous pollution levels. The main focus is quite … different from the previous literature. The mechanism linking pollution and trade is that trade provides the home government … that sense, the existence of trade helps reduce domestic pollution compared to what would prevail in a situation of autarky …

Widespread concern has been expressed that the costs of reducing environmental pollution in Eastern Europe will divert …

China’s policy-makers argued that WTO accession and the accompanying trade liberalization would have a beneficial … impact on the domestic economy. China’s import tariffs differed tremendously across industry in the earlier years, but …