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SIA in the Trade Negociation Process
A Challenge for Research and Development
Laurence Tubiana
Sustra Network&
IDDRI, Institut du développement
durable et des relations internationales
Trade negociations in WTO
• Contradictions in the process
• Specialization / extension of domains Trip’s, Investments, Services …
• Single undertaking
• Far reaching consequences, uncertainty
Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003
Growing questions and discontent
• Challenging legitimacy of the negotiation process
• Challenging the final economic efficiency of specific measures
• Contest of the equity : priorities and final outcomes
• What are the ends of liberalization ?
Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003
Sustainable development as the common objective of liberalization
• SD : an arbitrage between sometimes competing objectives
• Need to recognize pluralism and diversity in choices
• SIA : an attempt to internalize SD in trade negociation
Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003
Why SIA in trade debate ?
Growing recognition of :
• Interactions environmental & social issues / trade
• Uncertainty
• Unbalanced international institutionnal architecture
Need to integrate SD objectives in trade
Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003
SIA : policy tool or policy process• SIA as a policy tool : evaluation of policies and
measures • Problem of criterias determination• SIA as a policy process• Shared diagnosis• Common identification of issues• Learning process• Depending of nature and quality of participation
Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003
Perspectives : how to go forward in the liberalization process
• Need to recognize diversity of development models and collective preferences as a precondition of any sustainable liberalization
• SD : building legitimate institutions and preserving specificities
Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003
Common objectives
• Different collective preferences but commons objectives : common goods and fundamental human rights
• MDG’s and Johannesbourg objectives: access to water, energy food security, health and education, protection of biodiversity
Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003
Challenge for research
• From impact assesment of policies to assessment of collectives preferences
• Research on scenarios and alternatives
• Study of the interactions of different development models
• Measure of positive and negative externalities of national and regional collective preferences
Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003
Challenge for research
• New interdisciplinary programs to identify new economic tools
• To analyse legitimacy of collective preferences
Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003
Changing negociation methods
• SIA as a permanent reassessment process of trade agreements
• Agreement on medicines as a model for the future: negotiating trade policies in a development perspective
• From a coodination through rule making towards a coordination through objectives for coherent global policies
Sustainable Trade Day, Cancun, 9 September 2003