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Summary: This article identifies a new trend in governmental use of non-tariff trade barriers - burdensome and costly environment, health and safety regulations and corresponding technical product standards that serve to deny market access to U.S. and other foreign goods.
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Looking Behind the Curtain: The Growth of Trade Barriers That Ignore Sound Science
Summary: This article discusses how the EU seeks to inject the Precautionary Principle into the WTO Agreements, the international standards development process, and its bilateral trade, aid and capacity-building agreements with other countries.
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EU Regulation, Standardization and the Precautionary Principle: The Art of Crafting a Three-Dimensional Trade Strategy That Ignores Sound Science
Summary: This article discusses how the EU's imposition of Precautionary Principle-based regulations upon developing country trading partners diminishes their prospects for social and economic advancement and health and environmental protection.
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'Enlightened' Environmentalism or Disguised Protectionism: Assessing the Impact of EU Precaution-Based Standards on Developing Countries 
Summary: This article discusses how Brazil's threat to issue compulsory licenses on U.S. HIV/AIDS drugs would violate the WTO TRIPS Agreement and endanger public health.
'The Wolf and the Stork' - How Brazil's Breaking of U.S. Drug Patents Threatens Global Trade and Public Health (co-authored) 
Summary: This article discusses how the RGGI will significantly raise energy, goods and services prices for regional businesses and consumers without providing measurable environmental benefits.
A Real Nor'easter - (The Cost of RGGI)(co-authored) 
Summary: This article raises a number of questions concerning the Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative ("RGGI")
RGGI - Why Is There No Public Debate?(co-authored) 
Summary: This article discusses how Europe is working behind the scences to ensure the success of RGGI for purposes of influencing U.S. climate change policy.
RGGI is Europe's Back-Door Man - How Europe Relies on the Northeast Greenhouse Gas Initiative to Influence U.S. Climate Change Policy (co-authored) 
Summary: This article discusses how emotion-based fear and irrationality regarding climate can trigger costly economic consequences.
Will Hope and the Regulatory Orthodoxy of RGGI and the Kyoto Protocol Lead Us to the Economic Abyss?
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