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






Navigating the Site

The material for Edition 1 is organised under 4 major headings

  1. Issues
    Overview of the WTO, the proposed agenda and proposals put forward by delegations and others

  2. Factors pushing Ethical Trade
    Brief overview of key issues influencing the development of ethical trade.

  3. Unpacking the Policy issues
    Examination of the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, proposals for liberalisation in the forest sector and the link between labour standards and trade.

  4. Implications
    Exploration of potential outcomes from the Seattle Round in relation to ethical trade

The Index lists the separate pages under the four headings.


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