Trade in services and foreign direct investment are also climbing rapidly. Costly Tradeoffs documents a growing number of short-term clashes between protecting the environment and promoting free trade. Yet the report rejects the view that these aims are incompatible. The world trading system requires a healthy natural resource base. The report cites a number of cases where trade now fuels unsustainable economic activity, including depletion of natural resources, and the creation of pollution havens where enforcement of environmental laws is lax.
Fish account for half of Iceland's export earnings.
But overfishing is endangering the future prosperity of the industry. But the trade is rapidly decimating forests in the state of Sarawak, homeland to the Penan. Under Europe's single market, economic growth is expected to boost sulfur dioxide emissions by 8 to 9 percent and nitrogen oxides emissions by 12 to 14 percent by 2010 without mitigating measures. A September 1991 GATT panel ruled that portions of the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act were at odds with the GATT agreement after Mexico challenged them. The law prohibits U.S. sales of tuna caught in a way that kills large numbers of dolphins.