Interpretation And Application Of GATT Articles Ⅲ And XX By WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism

Because the environmental problem in the global scope is increasingly outstanding, it strengthens the environmental protection and carries out one wave of noise of shouting about continuable development. Governments have been increasingly pressed to solve environmental problems. They promulgated the various environmental rules in the domestic; and because of people's health and the safety consciousnesses, the government has to set a series of product standards related to environmental factor, including the product safety and hygiene standards. This results in limiting the international trade liberalism ineludible.Dispute Settlement Mechanism of World Trade Organization Dispute (called DSM in short) solves more and more relevant environment-trade dispute. While one member state which exports a kind of product is regulated by environmental tax/rules of another member state, the influencing state considers that the regulating rules is not consistent with GATT Article III; and the regulating state could use GATT Article XX, especially GATT Article XX b, g related to environmental matters to demur. DSM should set up a panel to estate this regulation if it is or not consistent with GATT.It isn't identical that how DSM explain and apply GATT Articles III and XX in practice. So it makes sense that we research the task. This paper has three chapters.In the first chapter, it summarizes the standards and basic principle that how DSM interprets and applies GATT Article III, and it consists of four parts as follows:(i) Interpretation of GATT Article III by DSM. Referring to...