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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9872

31 March 2009
Contents Publication in full By article 28 / 36
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
Dutch minister Frank Heemskerk warns of danger of climate policy-related trade war

Brussels, 30/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - Dutch Trade Minister Frank Heemskerk, visiting Washington last week, drew attention to the risk of a trade war brought about by climate change policy. “Developed countries must not carry into trade their disagreements with states they feel are not doing enough to combat global warming. It we use a loophole in WTO rules to impose trade restrictions on China, for example, for not sufficiently reducing its CO2 emissions, the Chinese will use the same...

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