 Trade liberalization, a neoliberal economic policy in which trade is completely deregulated, leaving no tariffs, quotas, or other restrictions on international trade, is designed to further developing countries’ economies and integrate them into the global economy.Critics claim that although free-market trade liberalization was designed to allow any country the opportunity to reach economic success, the consequences of these policies have been devastating for Global South countries, essentially crippling their economies in a servitude to the Global North.Even supporters such as the International Monetary Fund, “progress of integration has been uneven in recent decades” 

Specifically, developing countries have been targeted by trade liberalization policies to import waste as a means of economic expansion.