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Outside of the GATT/WTO, environmental issues have also risen to prominence in regional trade negotiations. This has been especially true with the trilateral US-Mexico-Canada negotiation on a North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA). This agreement contains side agreements in the areas of environment and worker standards as well as safeguards. The environmental side agreement has been supplemented by a US-Mexico border clean-up facility. Finally, the NAFTA agreement itself also includes environmentally related provisions, some of which appear to differ from those in the multilateral trading rules. This chapter discusses some of the ways in which environmental issues have been, and might be, addressed in regional trading arrangements with a particular focus on NAFTA.
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© 1997 Peter Uimonen and John Whalley
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Uimonen, P., Whalley, J. (1997). Environmental Issues in NAFTA and Other Western Hemisphere Trade Arrangements. In: Environmental Issues in the New World Trading System. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25412-5_8
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