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The European Union wants to impose carbon tariffs on Australian exports. Is that legal?

  • Written by Felicity Deane, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
The European Union wants to impose carbon tariffs on Australian exports. Is that legal? S-F/Shutterstock

What Australian politicians call carbon tariffs, the European Union labels a carbon border adjustment mechanism.

While one sounds bad (the World Trade Organisation has rules that restrict tariffs) the other sounds understandable — if the European Union is imposing a carbon tax on its own products as Australia once did,...

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