Comments on: Protectionism and the ETS http://economics.com.au/?p=1669&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=protectionism-and-the-ets Commentary on economics, strategy and more Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:44:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Confused protectionists | East Asia Forum http://economics.com.au/?p=1669&cpage=1#comment-133778 Confused protectionists | East Asia Forum Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:03:43 +0000 http://economics.com.au/?p=1669#comment-133778 [...] Author: Shiro Armstrong In response to my concerns about a carbon tariff and the impact it will have on the world trading system, Joshua Gans replies [...] [...] Author: Shiro Armstrong In response to my concerns about a carbon tariff and the impact it will have on the world trading system, Joshua Gans replies [...]

]]> By: CoreEcon » Blog Archive » Failure to account on the ETS http://economics.com.au/?p=1669&cpage=1#comment-131283 CoreEcon » Blog Archive » Failure to account on the ETS Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:11:35 +0000 http://economics.com.au/?p=1669#comment-131283 [...] have been in support of doing something real (that is, not free but tradable permits) about trade-exposed industries not to support those [...] [...] have been in support of doing something real (that is, not free but tradable permits) about trade-exposed industries not to support those [...]

]]> By: Confused Protectionists « East Asia Forum http://economics.com.au/?p=1669&cpage=1#comment-131219 Confused Protectionists « East Asia Forum Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:18:27 +0000 http://economics.com.au/?p=1669#comment-131219 [...] In response to my concerns about a carbon tariff and the impact it will have on the world trading system, Joshua Gans replies [...] [...] In response to my concerns about a carbon tariff and the impact it will have on the world trading system, Joshua Gans replies [...]

]]> By: Jonathan http://economics.com.au/?p=1669&cpage=1#comment-131181 Jonathan Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:39:41 +0000 http://economics.com.au/?p=1669#comment-131181 Hello, Sorry I couldn't find an email address so I decided to post it in a comment. First, I want to say that I am very impressed with your blog – you have amassed quite a list of resources on global economic issues. I actually just added your blog to the list of econ blogs I have on my blogroll (blog.emerginvest.com). My name is Jonathan O’Shaughnessy and I am the marketing director for a US-based startup called Emerginvest. We provide data and information on 140+ world markets and hundreds of thousands of companies. I also maintain an economic blog for our company – providing information and resources on global economic issues. I wanted to email you to let you know about our website and I was hoping that you could add our link to your blog (either for our main site or our blog) to expand your collection of resources. Main Site: www.emerginvest.com Blog: Blog.emerginvest.com Thank you very much for your time and we’d love to hear your input about either our business or our blog. Hello,

Sorry I couldn’t find an email address so I decided to post it in a comment.

First, I want to say that I am very impressed with your blog – you have amassed quite a list of resources on global economic issues. I actually just added your blog to the list of econ blogs I have on my blogroll (blog.emerginvest.com).

My name is Jonathan O’Shaughnessy and I am the marketing director for a US-based startup called Emerginvest. We provide data and information on 140+ world markets and hundreds of thousands of companies. I also maintain an economic blog for our company – providing information and resources on global economic issues. I wanted to email you to let you know about our website and I was hoping that you could add our link to your blog (either for our main site or our blog) to expand your collection of resources.

Main Site: http://www.emerginvest.com

Blog: Blog.emerginvest.com

Thank you very much for your time and we’d love to hear your input about either our business or our blog.

]]> By: Paul http://economics.com.au/?p=1669&cpage=1#comment-131178 Paul Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:38:43 +0000 http://economics.com.au/?p=1669#comment-131178 This does seem like the best solution (at least in the interim), my big concern though is how do you calculate the amount of carbon embedded in imports? The complexity of this task is the reason that the Government rejected this option (Green Paper, pg 300). Consider for example your average laptop computer, this could have 100's of components from 10's of different suppliers each themselves using components and primary materials from a number of different supplier. Is the cost of keeping track of the carbon of every component (and enforcing possible fraud) going to be the cheapest way to reduce carbon emissions? Perhaps I am overstating it though, and I note that one Canadian writer believe the auditing task would be difficult but not insurmountable (http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/mar08/courchene.pdf). I will be keeping my eye out though for more writing on the issue. This does seem like the best solution (at least in the interim), my big concern though is how do you calculate the amount of carbon embedded in imports?
The complexity of this task is the reason that the Government rejected this option (Green Paper, pg 300).
Consider for example your average laptop computer, this could have 100′s of components from 10′s of different suppliers each themselves using components and primary materials from a number of different supplier. Is the cost of keeping track of the carbon of every component (and enforcing possible fraud) going to be the cheapest way to reduce carbon emissions?
Perhaps I am overstating it though, and I note that one Canadian writer believe the auditing task would be difficult but not insurmountable (http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/mar08/courchene.pdf). I will be keeping my eye out though for more writing on the issue.

]]> By: Matthew Kwan http://economics.com.au/?p=1669&cpage=1#comment-131173 Matthew Kwan Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:54:43 +0000 http://economics.com.au/?p=1669#comment-131173 Maybe we could just implement a Carbon Added Tax, along the lines of the GST. Imports get taxed according to carbon emitted, exports get a rebate. That would level the playing field for business, while still giving the correct price signals for consumers. Maybe we could just implement a Carbon Added Tax, along the lines of the GST. Imports get taxed according to carbon emitted, exports get a rebate.
That would level the playing field for business, while still giving the correct price signals for consumers.

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