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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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functions. The training and qualification program requires the analyst to analyze known and blind'' standards. Statistical tests …
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Standards-based certification organizations (SBCOs) as a source of market order have been largely neglected as a topic …: An Inductive Case Study of Standards-Based Certification Organizations in the U.S. Organic Food Industry,? employs …, ?Certifying the Harvest: The Role of Standards-Based Certification Organizations in Market Entry and Exit Dynamics,? examines how …
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This paper presents promising methodologies for modeling and quantifying nontariff barriers (NTB) to trade in the agricultural and food sectors. We limit the analysis to sanitary, phytosanitary, and technical regulations that can have an impact on trade and to methods that provide some...
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The United States is a large net exporter of corn seeds. Seed trade, including corn, has been expanding but its determinants are not well understood. This paper econometrically investigates the determinants of world demand for U.S. corn seeds with a detailed analysis of trade costs impeding...
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technical barrier to trade (TBT) based on Wales and Woodland’sKuhn-Tucker approach to corner solutions in consumer choice. The …
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variety of FTA partners. The computational results presented thus reflect both the direct effects of the bilateral FTAs and … different FTA options are for the most part fairly small in absolute terms and as a percentage of GDP. We compare the FTA …
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the United States (KUS-FTA). We use an equilibrium displacement model to ask how market prices, quantities and other … and no reduction in U.S. rice subsidy even though Korea must still expand its WTO-multilateral quota. A KUS-FTA is likely …
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Secondary markets have adopted a number of quality signaling mechanismssuch as certification to reduce information … examine the impact oftheir information-acquisition on the choice of certification, as well asthe price paid. We compare the … findings highlight that product-related informationsubstitutes, and price-related information complements, certification …
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National Laboratory (LANL) is working to achieve Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) certification to enable them to transport …. Since the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) has achieved WIPP certification, INEEL personnel … the particular software quality assurance requirements required for WIPP certification. …
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