“…One is the volume of traded products, depending on their central and peripheral status in the global trade network (Petridis et al, 2020; Pu et al, 2019). The other is the quality of traded products that depends on their upstream and downstream status in the global value chain (Galvan‐Miyoshi et al, 2022; Gehl Sampath & Vallejo, 2018; Raei et al, 2019). Previous studies focus on the environmental impacts of trade in EGs, the EG lists making and trade benefits, environmental regulation and benefit distribution, thus they lack the comparative perspective to identify contradictions between developed and developing countries in trade practice (Costantini & Crespi, 2008; Wang, He, & Song, 2021; Zugravu‐Soilita, 2018).…”