Download or read book Competitiveness and Environmental Standards written by Piritta Sorsa and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restricting trade to compensate for differences in environmental standards is unlikely to improve competitiveness in environmentally sensistive industries. Higher environmental spending has had no noticeable effect on trade performance, so protection will not solve problems of noncompetitiveness. The reasons for good or poor performance are likely to lie elsewhere.