Subsidies issues in renewable energy trade

• Main Author: WANG, Heng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Renewable energy; Subsidies; WTO; FTAs; Specificity; General infrastructure; Energy and Utilities Law; International Trade Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4492; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/6450/viewcontent/SubsidiesRenewableEnergyTrade_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The chapter analyzes several issues regarding the renewable energy subsidies in trade law. There are uncertainties regarding the WTO-consistence of renewable energy subsidies for goods. It is partially due to the vagueness of WTO rules and insufficient jurisprudence. Among them, issues such as the specificity of subsidies turn to be quite controversial. Given the unclear WTO disciplines on the susidies for goods, renewable energy subsidies for services could be more popular. The “collaboration” between the WTO law and FTAs is desirable to reform the WTO rules on trade remedies and to strike a balance between trade disciplines and environment protection.