THE WASTE TRADE PUZZLE AND GATT CONFLICT

Waste Trading was viewed as an easy activity to dump excessive waste from one side of the world to the other. Free trade policies supported the environmentally harmful activity and advocated for a free movement, until the World NGOs came forward and developed the "Ban Conventions" for the activity. The area of waste trading has been not left from the effect of International policies and difference in municipal laws for the waste management. The paper analyses the activity of Waste Trading from the perspective of GATT Principles, supporting the view that the ban is not justified even under the GATT exceptions and therefore the need is for a balance between a The Complete Ban and Control Strategy adopted. The idea is to present that the diverging municipal laws of waste management creates more difficulty and the need is to find a solution to this in International Law.