International Trade Law and emerging trade-related issues: The case of Animal Welfare Concerns
| Autor | María Alejandra Calle-Cook |
| Páginas | 8-21 |
International Trade Law and emerging trade-related issues: The case of Animal Welfare Concerns
8
Journal of International Law
International Trade Law and
emerging trade-related issues:
The case of Animal Welfare Concerns
Abstract
This article aims to address the main concerns on the plausibility (legality and
legitimacy) for WTO Member States when adopting trade related measures (mandatory
ecolabeling schemes). Such measures are intended to enhance or to provide animal
welfare regulations in the course of trade, especially in the context of the WTO covered
agreements, like in the case of GATT, the agreement on Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary
measures and the agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade. This article is also intended
to identify the main forces and challenges beyond market driven initiatives related to
labeling animal welfare standards, considering the fact that this bundle of concerns are
mostly based on ethologic and veterinary criteria, and also taking into account that they
are subject to ethical based analysis, specially dependent on socio economical structures
and cultural values that play a decisive role when deciding if animal welfare (or even
compassion to certain animals) has a room in domestic policy and then in trade politics.
Key words
The relation between ethical issues and trade remains as one of the most important challenges
trading system. Nature and biodiversity lost its ancient divinity in order to be treated as goods
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