Fighting against climate change and for fair trade: finding the EU’s interest in the solar panels dispute with China
Fighting against climate change and for fair trade: finding the EU’s interest in the solar panels dispute with China
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应对气候变化和公平贸易：在与中国的太阳能电池板争端中寻找欧盟的利益
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2018
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通讯作者：
Coraline Goron
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Coraline Goron
欧盟和中国之间关于太阳能电池板贸易的争端通常用强权政治来解释，重商的中国利用欧洲内部分歧为自己谋取利益。但贸易防御案也因违背欧洲气候政策目标而受到批评。这个案例在多大程度上说明了贸易与环境之间的规范冲突？该文章将争议置于贸易防御程序的背景下，根据该程序，欧盟必须首先决定中国对其光伏产业的补贴是否非法，其次，欧洲的气候政策是否有理由反对征收贸易防御税。报告发现，在这种情况下，欧洲决策者之间在实现全球气候变化政策目标的适当方式方面存在重要的规范分歧，从而加剧了欧洲不同工业利益之间熟悉的竞争。仅仅适用法律并不能解决争端。相反，它强调了争端政治叙述转变所产生的政治妥协，从强调竞争转向强调相互依存，推动欧盟委员会与中国达成政治妥协。
The dispute between the EU and China regarding the trade in solar panels has been commonly explained in terms of power politics, whereby a mercantile China exploited European internal divisions to its advantage. But the trade defence case was also criticized for running against European climate policy goals. To which extent does this case illustrate a normative conflict between trade and the environment? The article replaces the dispute in the context of the trade defence procedures, according to which the EU had to decide, first, whether China’s subsidization of its PV industry was illegal, and second, whether Europe’s climate policies warranted against imposing trade defence duties. It finds that, in this case, the familiar competition between divergent European industrial interests was made worse by an important normative cleavage amongst European decision-makers, regarding the appropriate way to achieve global climate change policy goals. Simply applying the law did not settle the dispute. Instead, it plastered a political compromise emerged from a shift in the political narrative of the dispute, from emphasizing competition to emphasizing interdependence, pushing the Commission into a political compromise with China.
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作者：
M. Dunford;K. Lee;Weidong Liu;Godfrey Yeung
通讯作者：
M. Dunford;K. Lee;Weidong Liu;Godfrey Yeung