Abstract:
International Trading under GAIT / WTO is based on the principle to reduce the trade barrier in order to create the free trade among the member countries. If any member use the measure to protect the free trade, it shall be led to dispute settlement. The trade disputes related to the environment is the new trade barriers that occur by setting the non-tariff barriers in order to protect environment , which create the new trade dispute that led to the new settlement process.GAIT 1947 dispute settlement by Article 22 , 23 is the rule and procedure for settlement of the international trade disputes and this procedure was improved to be WTO procedure under DSU.However from the study and analysis found that these disputes settlement procedure is suitable only for trading disputes , but not appropriate for disputes related to environment. There are still some problems such as the obscurity of the principle, the obscurity of law wording , the attributes of panelist lacking of knowledge and expert on environment. These problems should be improved to make the better procedure in settlement the disputes that relate to environment in the future.