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International Law, Industrial Location, And Pollution, Duane Chapman, Jean Agras, Vivek Suri
International Law, Industrial Location, And Pollution, Duane Chapman, Jean Agras, Vivek Suri
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
The dominant position of economists on trade and environment is that
increasing trade raises living standards, which provide the economic
basis for reduced pollution. Professors Chapman, Agras, and Suri
present a perspective that raises very different points. First, the dramatic
growth of manufacturing in East Asia for global markets is
based entirely (or nearly so) on the importation of processed
pollution-intensive raw materials. For a typical product in this global
system, a U.S. consumer purchasing an Asian product made from
imported resources benefits from a lower price and a cleaner local
environment; however, energy use and pollution associated with the …