This study was funded by the Organization for the American States. It was prepared for the National Planning Department and the Ministry of External Commerce, Bogota, Colombia under the auspices of the United Nationas Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Program on Trade and the Environment.

The U.N. has chosen Colombia to prepare a series of case studies illustrating the relationships between trade and the environment. The studies are to be designed to illuminate two aspects of this relation. Part one studies are to investigate the effect that international enviromental regulations may have on the domestic encomy.