Conflict,Coordination Between Free Trade And Environment Protection

In the economic globalization trend, economic and trade exchanges widespread , which makes the development of the national trade comparative advantages into full play,promotes the efficient allocation of global resources and accelerates the development of the global economy. However , in the process of economic globalization, environmental pollution is serious. During the global economic development ,environmental considerations are becoming more and more prominent.How to coordinate the relationship between international trade and environmental protection is a problem. We must keep the constant development of the world economy and prevent the further deterioration of the environment. So,we talk about the topics: the relationship between free trade and environmental protection issues.Conflict between trade liberalization and environmental protection becomes worst. Environmentalists have different options with who promote the trend of free trade. At the same time , developed and developing countries have launched a broad debate around the issue of free trade and the environment , the controversy reflects different interests in economic development periods. Then free trade and environmental protection are similar to fish and bear paw? The elimination of all trade barriers can be reconciled with the requirements of environmental protection? There are many reasons for the conflict,such as: the different principle between environmental protection and current international trade policy,the inconsistent of rights and obligations at different stage. In fact,free trade and environmental protection are two important aspects of sustainable development,they can promote each other and seeking common development.WTO,NAFTA and the European Union has taken a series of measures, and achieved certain results. Such policies enable them to unite and work together to maintain the development of international trade and harmony of the environment.Analyzing the measures of WTO,NAFTA and the EU we must all strive to make better coordination of free trade and environmental protection. For example , in the platform of WTO , we must consider harmonious development between free trade and environmental protection early,instead of in trade barriers by the Environmental Protection becoming trade barriers after the action began,we must pay attention to accuracy and specificity in the process of policy formulation term, and to search for consistence with other environmental agreements.At the same time,EU and NAFTA show some special features facing trade and environment issues. Therefore , we can expand regional economic organizations to deal with many key issues,and to establish a unified,fair,transparent,multilateral framework for trade and environment rules under the auspices of the WTO.In favor of China's economic development and foreign trade, we must actively deal with the conflict between free trade and environmental protection and find effective ways to solute this problem.