Trade and the Environment Theories stress three key effects of trade on the environment: Scale, Technique and Composition effects. Here is a good example of the composition effects — as an added bonus it plays out with a trade barrier!

Trade allowed for recycling waste to find its way to China, or HOW THE CHINESE COULD DISRUPT GLOBAL RECYCLING MARKETS

The recent Trump trade war has given China a great opportunity to “clean up its” composition effect as U.S. scrap exports to China just came to a screeching halt…