Transatlantic Trade Disputes on Health, Environment and Animal Welfare Standards: Background to Regulatory Divergences and Possible Solutions
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The paper analyses the pattern and background of transatlantic trade disputes where the US and Canada have challenged EU health, environmental or animal welfare. It shows that, in principle, the EU maintains stricter (or arguably higher) standards in these areas, partly due to some historic events or societal characteristics which make Europeans more risk averse, and partly due to the nature of the EU supranational regulatory process. The paper examines whether and how the currently negotiated agreements, CETA and TTIP, could address this regulatory divergence. It argues that the regulatory dif-ferences which reflect the different values of two constituencies are worth maintaining so as to foster pluralism, diversity, experimentation and democracy. In contrast, regulatory differences caused by the mere fact that regulators work independently of one another should be eliminated so as to achieve the benefits of greater trade libera lisation.
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