This paper undertakes a review of two cases brought before the Appellate Body of the WTO - the shrimp turtle case and the EC-Hormones case - to find that the WTO has gone a long way in integrating environmental concerns with the objective of free trade. Third world countries have nothing to gain through the anti-WTO stance of NGO whose actions are likely to help protectionism by the developed countries.
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