Virtual Environmental Goods and Service: How Does Trade Affect the Environment in China?
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics presents a seminar by Dr. Hu Tao, Chief Economist of Policy Research and Chief Expert of Trade and Environmental Expert Group for WTO New Round
Negotiation, Center of State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) of China. In this seminar, Dr. Hu will address these issues. He will first present a theoretical framework to examine how
cross-country environmental externalities in a period of globalization may cause global market failure in international trade. He will then present some CGE model results, which suggest that China
has a huge trade surplus in monetary terms, a large deficit in environmental terms.
Dr. Hu will also discuss possible policies to mitigate negative environmental impacts and to enhance positive environmental impacts by trade. Finally, Dr. Hu will share his experience in WTO and
several other bilateral trade and environment negotiations and his recent experiences in developing government policies that impose exporting tariffs in energy and pollution intensive products in
China.
