{"id":191772,"date":"2009-06-26T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/26\/wto-says-environmental-tarriffs-legal\/"},"modified":"2009-06-26T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T22:25:00","slug":"wto-says-environmental-tarriffs-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/26\/wto-says-environmental-tarriffs-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"WTO Says Environmental Tarriffs Legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much in the same way that they allow for the VAT to be charged at the border, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/1be7d034-61b6-11de-9e03-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss\">tariff to reflect the cost of carbon regulations would be legal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Countries implementing cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gases may be able to use border taxes to protect domestic industries, after the World Trade Organisation gave a cautious nod to such measures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s basic common sense, though they do note that it cannot be, &#8220;a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination or a disguised restriction on international trade&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much in the same way that they allow for the VAT to be charged at the border, a tariff to reflect the cost of carbon regulations would be legal: Countries implementing cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gases may be able to use border taxes to protect domestic industries, after the World Trade Organisation gave a cautious &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1079,1016,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-international-commerce","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}