Climate Border Adjustments and WTO Law : Extending the EU Emissions Trading System to Imported Goods and Services.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (419 pages)
- Nijhoff International Trade Law Series ; v.17 .
- Nijhoff International Trade Law Series .
Intro -- Climate Border Adjustments and WTO Law: Extending the EU Emissions Trading System to Imported Goods and Services -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The EU Emissions Trading System Leading to Carbon Leakage Effects -- 2.1 United Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement -- 2.2 EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) -- 2.3 Carbon Leakage Effects and Competitive Disadvantages -- 2.4 Current Approaches to Carbon Leakage in the EU -- 2.4.1 Export Rebates and Carbon Leakage List -- 2.4.2 The Extension of the EU ETS to International Flights -- 2.4.3 Proposal for an Import Border Adjustment (BA) for Cement and Clinker -- 2.5 Result: the Need for an Import Carbon Leakage Policy -- 3 Trade Measures to Resolve the Carbon Leakage Problem -- 3.1 Measures between Trade Liberalisation and Trade Restriction -- 3.2 Committee on Trade and Environment -- 3.3 Doha Round and Environmental Goods Agreement -- 3.4 Unilateral Instruments -- 3.4.1 Import Ban, Quota and Standard -- 3.4.2 Carbon Tariff -- 3.4.3 BA and the Integration into the EU ETS -- 3.4.4 Linking the EU ETS with Other ETSs -- 3.5 Climate-Related Trade Instruments within Preferential Trade Agreements -- 3.5.1 Recognition and Harmonisation of Climate-Related Standards -- 3.5.2 Conditional Tariff Policy -- 3.5.3 A Common BA -- 3.5.4 Linking the EU ETS with Other ETSs -- 3.6 Result: Unilateral BA for the EU ETS -- 4 Structuring the BA in the WTO Context -- 4.1 Focus on Imports -- 4.2 Aims -- 4.3 Interests -- 4.4 Effects -- 4.5 Provoking or Avoiding wto Disputes? -- 4.6 The Multiple Legal Nature of ETS, BAs and Certificates -- 4.7 The Impact of International Climate Agreements on WTO Law -- 4.8 Result: BA on Imports Complementing the EU ETS. 5 ETS and BA Restricting Trade in Goods -- 5.1 Measures at Issue: ETS and BA as Complementary Measures -- 5.2 Constellations of Discrimination -- 5.3 ETS and BA as Domestic Fiscal Measure -- 5.4 ETS and BA as Domestic Non-Fiscal Measures -- 5.5 BA as a Restriction on Market Access -- 5.6 Different bas for Different Countries and the Most-Favoured Nation Treatment -- 5.7 How to Avoid Restrictions of Article III gatt -- 5.8 ETS and BA as Climate Measures under the General Exceptions -- 5.9 How to Avoid Restrictions of Article XX GATT -- 5.10 Notification and Transparency -- 5.11 Result: ba without Emissions-Based Product Distinctions -- 6 ETS and BA Implying Technical Regulations or Standards -- 6.1 Measures at Issue: ETS and BA as Complementary Measures -- 6.1.1 Technical Standards -- 6.1.2 Technical Regulations -- 6.2 Constellations of Discrimination and Restriction -- 6.3 Climate-Related Concerns the ETS and BA Seek to Protect -- 6.4 Necessity Test -- 6.5 Non-Discrimination of Foreign Products -- 6.5.1 Like Products -- 6.5.2 Treatment No Less Favourable and Exclusion of Disguised Discrimination -- 6.6 Limiting Extra-Jurisdictional Effects -- 6.7 Notification and Transparency -- 6.7 Notification and Transparency -- 6.8 Technical Assistance and Special and Differential Treatment -- 6.9 Result: Product-Based ba Complying with the TBT Agreement -- 7 ETS and BA Affecting Trade in Services -- 7.1 Measures at Issue: ETS Alone or ETS and BA as Complementary Measures -- 7.2 Constellations of Discrimination and Affected Services -- 7.3 eu Schedule of Commitments in the Relevant Sectors -- 7.4 Restriction of Environmental Services -- 7.5 Restriction of Financial Services -- 7.5.1 The EU Schedule and Financial Services -- 7.5.2 Exclusion of Foreign Certificates as Market Access Restriction -- 7.5.3 National Treatment of Foreign Certificates. 7.5.4 Most-Favoured Nation Treatment of Non-Kyoto Certificates -- 7.6 Restriction of Aviation Services -- 7.6.1 Chicago Convention Relevant for the eu -- 7.6.2 Jurisdiction -- 7.6.3 The gats Annex on Air Transport Services (AATS) -- 7.6.4 Inclusion of International Flights into the EU ETS Providing Market Access -- 7.6.5 Treating Foreign as Favourably as EU Flights -- 7.6.6 Comparison between Non-Kyoto States and Kyoto States -- 7.7 ETS and BA as Climate Measures under the General Exceptions -- 7.7.1 Climate-Related Concerns the ETS and BA Seek to Protect -- 7.7.2 Necessity Test -- 7.7.3 Exclusion of Disguised Discrimination -- 7.7.4 Limiting Extra-Jurisdictional Effects -- 7.8 Participation of Developing Countries -- 7.9 Transparency -- 7.10 Result: Recognition of Foreign Certificates that Contribute to Climate Protection -- 8 Reform Proposal for an Import BA for the EU ETS -- 8.1 Emissions-Based Approach: Integration into the EU ETS -- 8.1.1 Measurement, Calculation -- 8.1.2 Necessary Reforms of the EU ETS -- 8.2 Price-Based Approach: ba Equivalent to the Restriction of the ETS Per Product or Service -- 8.2.1 Measurement, Calculation -- 8.2.2 Necessary Reforms of the EU ETS -- 8.3 Simplifications and Exemptions -- 8.3.1 Limitation of Sectors -- 8.3.2 Threshold -- 8.3.3 Foreign Climate Policies -- 8.3.4 State of Development -- 8.4 Use of Revenues from the BA -- 8.5 Moment of Adjustment -- 8.6 Result: Price-Based Import ba for the EU ETS -- 9 Outlook -- Bibliography -- Index.
In Climate Border Adjustments and WTO Law, Ulrike Will develops a convincing reform proposal for a climate border adjustment (BA) on imports within the EU Emission Trading System (ETS), which would be immune to disputes at the WTO and comply with international climate agreements while remaining economically feasible and straightforward to implement.
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World Trade Organization-European Union countries. Emissions trading-Law and legislation-European Union countries. Foreign trade regulation-European Union countries.