我代表团在2009年7月WTO贸易与环境委员会上的发言（英文）
On the agenda issue of Environment and Market access:
·Work on environment and market access has been important to the Committee on Trade and Environment, especially under the current situation. Against the backdrop of the current global financial crisis, WTO members are frequently tempted or pressured domestically to adopt some measures to protect domestic industry in the disguise of environmental protection. However, we need be extremely vigilant of the obvious dangers of those measures. Firstly, those measures could be in violation of the core principles of the WTO rules, create arbitrary and unjustifiable discrimination, or serve as disguised trade barriers, thus exposing the credibility of the multilateral trading system to great risks; Secondly, those measures could create chain reactions or generate domino effect in terms of leading to retaliatory moves by other WTO members, a further slippage towards trade protectionism worldwide. Thirdly, those measures will sour the environment for DDA negotiations and other environment-related international negotiations.
Besides, we would also like to encourage the WTO members to continue to work on the issues which have been already raised by developing members, such as transparency requirements, impact assessment, capacity building and technology transfer etc., so as to strike a reasonable balance between environment protection, trade and development, avoiding imposing unnecessary negative impact on international trade.
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