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This 3 page paper provides an overview of trade liberalization and considers whether it can exist along side morally conscious decision-making. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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will define business operations and economic development in the decades to come. Others argue that trade liberalization will put an end to morally-conscious environmental decision-making. Instead, trade liberalization
will result lead to a continuation of poor environmental policies and declining environmental conditions throughout the world. One of the key issues when understanding the impact of trade liberalization
on environmental decision-making is that economic liberalization is based on the value of the almighty dollar (or yen or peso). Economic liberalization is the "lowering of tariff and
non-tariff barriers to international trade, the encouragement of foreign investment and the deregulation of financial markets" (Lee, 1996, p. 485). In conjunction with economic liberalization, the current corporate operational
structure has also been influenced by an influx of technology which has reduced the physical barriers that once existed to operating segments of businesses in different countries (Lee, 1996).
All of these factors have led to the spread of business operations, the development of corporate interests, and emerging conflicts between corporate interests and the environment. One interesting example of
the belief that economic liberalization and morally-conscious environmental decision-making cannot go hand-in-hand can be viewed in the application of trade protections under NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Specifically, the case of Methanex v. The United States, is example of trade liberalization working against environmental policy. In this case, the corporation Methanex filed a $970 million suit
against the United States because of environmental protection actions taken by the State of California (Bottari, 2005). California had implemented environmental protections aimed at phasing out the use of
methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), which is a common gasoline additive, because of reports that it had neurotoxicological impacts and that it was appearing in groundwater (Bottari, 2005). The
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