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• Biofuels and Wto Disciplines

Given the sharp rise in crude oil prices and growing awareness of climate change, the potential of biofuels, particularly of bioethanol, has become an ubiquitous topic of public debate and has induced ambitious policy initiatives. The latter are mostly paired with protectionist measures as the examples of the European Union and the United States show, where domestic producers of energy crops are put at an advantage thanks to subsidisation, direct payments and/or favourable tax schemes. Moreover, the EU is working out a mandatory certification scheme for ethanol imports, imposing social and environmental standards which constitute another hurdle for more efficiently produced ethanol originating in the Southern hemisphere. A similar path is taken by Switzerland's revised mineral oil tax l...

..., with Brazil and the United States accounting for over 70% of total world production. Ethanol pr... ethanol (introduced in 1980 with the Omnibus Reconciliation Tax Act which is currently set at 5...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 63 Num. 1, Mars 2008

• The Devil Is in the Details: The Implementation of Stimulus Packages and Their Effects On International Commerce

...Three other factors account for current interest in the commerce-related impli... not carry that label.14 By contrast, the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009 reverts back to citing th...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 64 Num. 2, Juin 2009