International regime conflict in trade and environment: the Biosafety Protocol and the WTO The author wishes to acknowledge numerous helpful discussions with Julia Moore of the US National Science Foundation and Gretchen Stanton of the WTO and David Cox of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, as well as penetrating criticism from WTR anonymous reviewers. Able research assistance and advice were provided by Olivia Baldwin and Cory Binderup. Research support was received from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and a Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center.