國際環境規制에 따른 韓國貿易의 對應方案 - Non Tariff Barriers를 중심으로 -

A Study on the Alternatives of Korea's Trade in the International Environment Control

Today, the international environmental conventions are regulating duties of nations and including measures for trade control. creating more and more burdens for the industry and trade of Korea having a high inclination of depending on foreign nations and having weak base for financial and technical position. Major international environmental conventions include Montreal protocol for the restriction of the use of the CFC. Halon for preservation of the ozone layer, the convention on climate change for the protection of the warming of the earth through the restriction of the use of CO₂, fossil fuel. Basel convention for the restriction of international movement of harm scrapped material of 47 kinds, the convention on biological diversity for the protection of the extinction of biological resources, and the convention integrating Rio manifesto. Advanced nations including the USA and the major trading nations with Korea are taking steps such as import restriction of the CFC, Halon using products. the intensification of the CO₂ excretion, the restriction for carrying in the harm scrapped material. the new registration of tariff imposition and all these are becoming a new non-tariff barrier. The Korean government. therefore, has to take positive actions for the prompt information acqusition through the participation of the environment-related international conferences and for the decrease of the international trade friction related to environmental restrictions through the intensification of environment related diplomacy. On the other hand, the government has to vest and search for the finding of substitute materials and for the technology development leaving the stage of searching for the inclination of the environment-related restriction.