Should there be international trade in pollution rights?

A basic principle in Economics is that of comparative advantage: a country will produce the goods that it is relatively better at producing, even it is bad at it. The traditional story usually includes relative endowments in capital and labor, and the capital intensity of goods matters. Now add environmental externalities. Comparative advantage would say that polluting production should take place were pollution is the "cheapest," that is. where it would have fewer consequences. This is the principle being the introduction of an international market for pollution rights. Such markets are already active within countries, with the idea that firms that can best control pollution will produce the polluting goods, as they need fewer pollution rights. Would this basic principle also hold across countries?

Jota Ishikawa, the late Morihiro Yomogida and Kazuharu Kiyono claim that it is not necessarily beneficial to have an international market. Indeed they point out that rich countries could import pollution rights from the poor countries, thereby further deteriorating the environment in the developed economies. So instead of relocating production, pollution is imported. It all depends on comparative advantage.