Settlement Of Environment-Trade Dispute Under GATT/WTO And Its Enlightenment To China

Tuna Case is a typical case of environment-trade disputes under GATT, and Turtle/ Shrimp Case is a typical case of environment-trade disputes under WTO. Comparing these two cases, we can see that the development of Environment-Trade Disputes Settlement Mechanism under WTO was relatively much better than that under GATT, but on the other hand, it is still not good enough to deal with all disputes and it needs to be improved. We can derive inspiration from these two cases and use it for our reference.This paper is focused on Environment-Trade Disputes Settlement practice under GATT/WTO, the main clue of the paper is gradual improvement of solving problems in Environment-Trade Disputes from GATT to WTO, and two typical cases of solving problems in Environment-Trade Disputes were introduced by methods of analysis and comparison. We can see gradual improvement in solving problems in Environment-Trade Disputes under GATT/WTO through analyzing these two cases. Meanwhile, we can also see that Disputes Settlement Mechanism under GATT/WTO still needs to be improved.In the first part of the paper, the background and main reasons for Environment-Trade Disputes were introduced. In the second part, two typical cases of settling environment-trade disputes under GATT and WTO were introduced, and these two cases mentioned above are Tuna I Case under GATT and Turtle/ Shrimp Case under WTO. In the third part, the trend of environment-trade disputes settlement under GATT/WTO was summarized. At the end of the paper, I concluded inspiration that we derived from these two cases and reference that we can use for solving similar problems in China in the future.