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World Trade Organisation Khoa Nguyen The World Trade Organization's (WTO) was initially formed to regulate trade between nations and was portrayed as a dangerous threat to the environment (Weinstein 2001) but they have come to realize the importance of protecting the environment and have made efforts towards developing principles to implement environmental concerns. The main argument for the WTO to regulate environmental issues includes the protection of the environment. In 1996, the US blocked imports of shrimp from countries that did not devices designed to safeguard endangered sea turtles in their fishing fleets. (Weinstein 2001) The WTO justified the US for its steps towards saving the endangered species but found they had discriminated against Malaysia, Pakistan and India as they hadn't provided them adequate technical, financial assistance and longer transition periods for their fishermen to start using turtle-excluder devices as they did with other countries. (WTO 2002) WTO...

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