WTO and Ethical Trade

October 1999
Edition 1

Navigating the Site

Ethical Trade Watching Brief Home

Introducing the Issues
- Introduction
- WTO and forest certification
- Forest certification and eco-labels
- WTO and Seattle
- Ethical Trade and Protection
Factors Pushing Ethical Trade
- Positive policy factors
- Moves towards Sustainable Forest Management
- National Level Initiatives
- Social trends and Ethical consumers
Unpacking the Trade Policy Issues
- Eco-labels, trade law and protectionism
- The links between social and labour issues and trade
- Liberalisation in the Forest sector
Implications
- Implications of environmental rule changes
- Implications of the social and labour standards debate
- Implications of liberalisation in the forest sector
- Conclusions

- References
- Useful Links






 Unpacking the trade policy issues

3 main issues are presented here:

Eco-labels, trade law and protectionism

The links between social and labour issues and trade

Liberalisation in the forest sector

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