English version:Prim-Lex Theory and the World Trade Organization: From Carbon Border Adjustment to Climate Compatibility Certification ------A New Trade Order

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🔬研究者:Provides a theoretical framework for WTO-compliant carbon border measures, though empirical validation is needed.

🏢実務担当者:Highlights potential future trade compliance requirements beyond CBAM, useful for export strategy.

🏛政策担当者:Offers a multilateral alternative to unilateral CBAM, relevant for trade and climate policy design.

On January 1, 2026, the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) officially entered its enforcement phase, marking the arrival of the "carbon tariff" era in global trade governance. However, the unilateral design of CBAM faces severe challenges to its WTO compatibility. In July 2026, Russia formally requested the establishment of a dispute settlement panel at the WTO, alleging that CBAM violates core GATT principles including most-favored-nation treatment and national treatment. China also proposed multilateral discussions on CBAM at the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment, receiving broad attention. Based on the complete theoretical system of Prim-Lex Theory (Economic Climatology) --- the Fourfold Prim-Fire (Physical Prim-Fire, Animal Prim-Fire, Plant Prim-Fire, and Prim-Fire of Mind), the GC⁴A three-tier governance architecture (first-order hard boundaries, second-order spatial regulation, third-order derivative protocols), the Five-Element dynamic coupling equations, the Eight-Dimensional Framework, and the Prim-Nexus Guidance --- this paper proposes replacing the unilateral CBAM dispute-oriented mechanism with "Climate Compatibility Certification + Product Lifecycle GCSOS Zoning Certification." It designs a global trade compliance system based on product carbon footprints and GCSOS three-color zoning: green-zone products enjoy most-favored-nation zero-tariff treatment, yellow-zone products are subject to climate adjustment taxes, and red-zone products are prohibited from import or subject to punitive tariffs. The paper demonstrates how three-color zoning can achieve WTO compliance through a pathway ensuring "treatment no less favorable than that accorded to EU products," realizing a paradigm upgrade from "carbon border adjustment" to "climate compatibility certification" in trade rules. This paper elaborates in detail the specific applications, mathematical expressions, data collection sources, and empirical cases of each dimension of the Eight-Dimensional Framework in global trade governance, providing a complete mathematical foundation and operational pathway for the transition of global trade climate governance from unilateral disputes to multilateral coordination.

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