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The Recent International and Regulatory Decisions about Geographical Indications
Marette, Stephan; Clemens, Roxanne; Babcock, Bruce A. - 2007
As worldwide consumer demand for high-quality products and for information about these products increases, labels and geographical indications (GIs) can serve to signal quality traits to consumers. However, GI systems among countries are not homogeneous and can be used as trade barriers against...
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CADEIA PRODUTIVA DA CARNE BOVINA NO BRASIL: UM ESTUDO DOS PRINCIPAIS FATORES QUE INFLUENCIAM AS EXPORTAÇÕES
Tirado, Geovana; Costa, Sergio Jose; Carvalho, Jose Marcio - 2008
O trabalho analisa a cadeia produtiva da carne bovina (CPCB) no Brasil, sob o enfoque do comércio exterior, apresentando como base conceitual o estudo de cadeia produtiva no agronegócio e como método de coleta de dados secundários, o Mecasis. Tem, como objetivo, detectar os principais...
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WHY ARE US AND EU POLICIES TOWARD GMOs SO DIFFERENT?
Jackson, Lee Ann; Anderson, Kym - 2003
The development of genetically modified (GM) agricultural products requires new policies to manage potential food safety and environmental risks. The policy positions taken to date on GM foods by the United States and the European Union are very different. The US has few restrictions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445942
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Reducing coal subsidies and trade barriers: their contribution to greenhouse gas abatement
Anderson, Kym; McKibbin, Warwick J - 1997
International negotiations for an agreement to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases are unlikely to produce concrete and comprehensive policies for effective emission reductions in the near term, not least because the policy measures being considered are economically very costly to major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451710
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The Changing Nature of Protectionism: Are "Free Traders" Up to the Challenges It Presents?
Kerr, William A. - 2004
benefits must be balanced against the expected political benefits of protectionism (and their associated welfare costs) when … biased toward protectionism, particularly if trade restrictions are a source of corruption incomes. This article explains the … sources of new appeals for protectionism, outlines the relationship with traditional producer protectionism and lays out the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443941
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Are Standards Always Protectionist?
Marette, Stephan; Beghin, John C. - 2007
potential protectionism, the standard is useful in correcting the consumption externality in the domestic country. Protectionism …
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Disentangling the Demand-enhancing Effect and Trade-cost Effect of Technical Measures in Agricultural Trade among OECD countries
Xiong, Bo; Beghin, John - 2011
Domestic technical measures such as SPS and TBTs can enhance import demand via information disclosure and quality improvement, or hamper foreign export supply via imposing sizeable compliance costs, or both. The traditional gravity equation model estimates the net effect of these measures on...
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Optimal Tariffs: The Evidence
Broda, Christian; Limão, Nuno; Weinstein, David E. - 2007
The theoretical debate over whether countries can and should set tariffs in response to the foreign export elasticities they face goes back to Edgeworth (1894). Despite the centrality of the optimal tariff argument in trade policy, there exists no evidence about whether countries actually...
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Export specialization and economic growth
Plumper, T; Graff, M - 2001
favourable sectors. According to new growth theory, favourable sectors inhibit technological spill-over effects to the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448494
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The globalisation of the Australian passenger motor vehicle industry : lessons for other countries
Marks, Andrew - 2009
Protectionism played a pivotal role in establishing and nurturing the growth of the Australian passenger motor vehicle … run, protectionism simultaneously led to an inefficient inward looking industry which could not compete against the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481988