Un article écrit par Xin Wang et paru dans le Volume 11 · Number 15, 5 September 2011, de la revue Bridges Trade BioRes publié par l'International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD).
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"In contemporary China, tensions between the drive for economic growth and the need for environment and natural resource protection are well documented. Saddled with this delicate balance, in 2007 Beijing massively increased its use of restrictive export measures, such as export VAT rebates, export taxes, licenses, and quotas on environmentally harmful products. These policies are a part of China’s domestic policy package aimed at developing a green economy. Chinese official documents consistently stated that the use of such policies is for environment and resource protection ends; these policies have also, however, occasionally served for other motives such as to ensure domestic market supply. Also, the WTO panel has ruled that such export restrictive policies can never support environmental grounds. Being an important and sometimes dominant global supplier of raw materials and resources, China’s export restrictive measures can generate a global price increase which has now been the source of WTO disputes."
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