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The Impact of Non-tariff Barriers on Trade: The Gravity Model on Turkish Agri-Food Products
Asci, Serhat; Koc, A. Ali; Erdem, M. Sukru - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
The competition between the U.S. and the E.U. agricultural subsidies during 1980s decreased the world prices in agricultural and food markets but caused an extensive distortion in the international trade of agricultural and food products. Under these circumstances, World Trade Organization (WTO)...
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The Impact of Food Safety Third-Party Certifications on China’s Food Exports to the United States
Zheng, Yuqing; Muth, Mary; Brophy, Jenna - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
In this paper, we empirically examine the relationship between food safety TPC on a country’s food exports to the United States using data for 2010. We developed a modified gravity model to account for the role TPC plays in facilitating international food trade. we found that a 10% increase in...
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Effects of Food Safety Standards on Seafood Exports to US, EU and Japan
Nguyen, Anh Van Thi; Wilson, Norbert L.W. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009
Estimating the panel gravity model with bilateral pair and country-by-time fixed-effects separately for each seafood product, we found that food safety regulations have differential effects across seafood products. In all three industrialized markets, shrimp is most sensitive, while fish is the...
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Was Food Safety Declining?: Assessing the Justification for the US Food Safety Modernisation Act
Nakuja, Tekuni; Kerr, William A. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2013
Food safety regulations limit trade in bioproducts. Every country, however, has a duty to protect its citizens from food safety hazards. If risks are increasing under an existing food safety system then a strengthening of the regulatory regime can be justified, with the inevitable negative...
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State-Branded Programs and Consumer Preference for Locally Grown Produce
Nganje, William E.; Hughner, Renee Shaw; Lee, Nicholas E. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 40 (2011) 1
Revitalization of state brands is deemed important to several constituencies. Stated preference with choice experiment methods were used to elicit consumer preferences for two locally grown products: spinach, which has had a well-publicized food safety incidence, and carrots, which have had no...
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Traceability -- A Literature Review
Trautman, Dawn; Goddard, Ellen W.; Nilsson, Tomas K.H. - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2008
diseases, traceability has once again become important in the minds of public policymakers, business decision makers, consumers … and special interest groups. This study reviews studies on traceability, government regulation and consumer behaviour …, provide case studies of current traceability systems and a rough breakdown of various costs and benefits of traceability. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004974016
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GLOBALIZATION, FOOD SAFETY AND AGRICULTURAL HEALTH STANDARDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR TRADE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Jabbar, Mohammad A. - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 2008
The paper discusses the context of changing sanitary-phyto-sanitary (SPS) standards, concerns, questions and studies related to food standards and safety,strategic options for developing countries to deal with rising standards, results for case studies on compliance costs, benefits and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011246266
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Food Safety Concerns and other Factors Affecting Iran’s Pistachio Exports to EU, Australia, and Japan
Ashktorab, Niloofar; Saghaian, Sayed Hossein; … - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development 10 (2013) 2
In this paper, the impact of food safety concerns on Iran’s pistachio export demand was investigated. Panel data and panel cointegration analyses were used to estimate the export demand function of Iran’s pistachio nuts to the European Union (EU), Japan, and Australia for the period of 1997...
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Aflatoxin Redux: Does European Aflatoxin Regulation Hurt Groundnut Exporters from Africa?
Xiong, Bo; Beghin, John C. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/02/10.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020271
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The New Food Safety Regime in the US: How Will it Affect Canadian Competitiveness
Nakuja, Tekuni; Akhand, M.; Hobbs, Jill E.; Kerr, William A. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2011
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) which was signed into law in January, 2011 represents a major initiative to improve food safety in the US. The legislation mandates the US Food and Drug Administration with developing a regulatory system to implement the Act. As yet, the full effect of...
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