国际贸易的管制和可持续发展的前景外文翻译.docVIP

外文翻译 原文 International trade regulation and sustainable development: An outlook Material Source: /content/28q15w8g0m31j788/ Author: Karl Steininger International Trade Regulation and Sustainable Development: An Outlook Sustainable development at both the national and the global level is increasingly acknowledged to be dependent upon the international trade system. The WTO Agreements and the continuing discussion in the W-IO Committee on Trade and Environment are therefore examined here in the light of principles put forward by the International Institute for Sustainable Development. The current shortcomings in the WTO are analyzed and some possible cornerstones for future WTO development indicated. Even though the interlink age between trade and sustainable development is obvious and important, it was acknowledged as such only at the beginning of the 1990s by the world community. Yet it is far from having been effectively addressed, as is indicated by the Uruguay Round Final Act, signed in April 1994. In the process of the Uruguay Round negotiations, in the autumn of 1991 the GAFF Working Group on Environmental Measures and International Trade (EMIT) convened for the first time since its initiation in 1971. Together with the Uruguay Round Final Act, the Decision on Trade and Environment was signed in 1994, stating the work programmer for a Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE). Acknowledging its importance, initially a Sub-Committee of the WTO Preparatory Committee was formed which held five meetings from May through November 1994, before the Agreement establishing the WTO went into force on January 1st, 1995, when the Committee on Trade and Environment was officially established. The CTE then convened for eight meetings up to April 1996 in preparation for the report to the first WTO Ministerial Conference in December 1996. This conference will review the mandate and tasks of the Committee for its future work. For the furth