Trade and Environment Briefings: Export Restrictions - Policy Brief

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.authorInternational Trade Centre
dc.contributor.authorInternational Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
dc.contributor.organizationEconomy Division
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-05T12:17:37Z
dc.date.available2018-08-05T12:17:37Z
dc.date.issued2012-06
dc.descriptionThis document analyzes governments’ use of export restrictions to manage access to natural resources and to pursue goals including food security, industrial development, environmental protection, and conservation. It describes instruments such as export duties, quotas, licensing, minimum export prices, dual pricing, and prohibitions, noting their strongest global effects when a few producers control supply. Reported benefits include stabilizing domestic prices, supporting downstream processing in sectors like timber, fisheries, and leather, and tempering environmentally damaging extraction, but these measures can amplify international price spikes and volatility. The brief highlights risks to food-deficit importers, frictions over minerals and rare earths, and weak WTO disciplines, illustrated by disputes concerning China.en
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dc.identifier.issn1816-6970
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/25947
dc.languageEnglish
dc.page.number5 p.
dc.publisherInternational Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
dc.relationICTSD Programme on Global Economic Policy and Institutions
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectinternational trade
dc.subjectexport restriction
dc.subjectgreen economy
dc.subjectexport restraint
dc.subjectexport
dc.subjectSustainable Development
dc.subjectTrade
dc.subject.sdgSDG 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
dc.subject.sdgSDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
dc.subject.themeeconomics
dc.subject.themefinance
dc.titleTrade and Environment Briefings: Export Restrictions - Policy Briefen
dc.typePolicy brief

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