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As a country you also can enforce restrictions/taxes onto the whole supply chain, as a initial measure (can't be done by weak countries though).

Of course, mid term everyone should push for global carbon pricing models

Germany was the only country that seems to have understood this, given they were the only ones that advocated for it at COP.



> As a country you also can enforce restrictions/taxes onto the whole supply chain, as a initial measure…

Isn’t this an extremely hard problem, possibly unworkable, when trade is in assembled goods with complex, global supply chains?


Should be doable, see recent supply chain law of Germany regarding human rights


There's a problem between non-tariff measures and tariffs, with carbon taxing being too obviously a tariff measure. And you can't just throw in a tariff thanks to WTO rules, especially if it wouldn't apply to countries that do collect carbon tax - WTO requires that tariffs are applied the same to all countries except through certain bilateral trade treaties. Which is workable, but makes for considerable stumbling block in "quick apply" of carbon tax




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