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Treaties In Collision: The Biosafety Protocol And The World Trade Organization Agreements, Sabrina Safrin
Treaties In Collision: The Biosafety Protocol And The World Trade Organization Agreements, Sabrina Safrin
Rutgers Law School (Newark) Faculty Papers
In the event of a conflict between the requirements of the Biosafety Protocol, a multilateral agreement governing the trade in genetically modified organisms, and the requirements of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and associated agreements (collectively WTO Agreements), which treaty's requirements prevail? This question lies as the legal heart of the perceived conflict between trade globalization and environmental protection. This issue is particularly timely given the present trade dispute between the United States and European Union over the European Union’s restrictions on the importation of genetically modified agricultural commodities.
In this piece, I analyze the relationship between these …