Merely shifting the location of environmental damage from one region/area to other would not do any good to the total world environmental damage, it often poses problems of international concern. …show more content…
The impact of trade on the environment depends mainly on the volume of trade, the share of trade in production and consumption and the environmental impact of production and consumption. Large volumes of forestry and fishery products are traded along with several agricultural commodities including cereals, sugar, fats and oils, oil-meals, cassava, meat, bananas, fresh citrus, cotton, pulses, dairy products, tea, wine, coffee and rubber. At the global level, the trade: production ratio is usually low at certain places, while for commodities such as tropical beverages and rubber which in the world trade is the main stimulus to