increase in regulatory stringency - tighter restrictions on the pesticide chlorpyrifos - leads to a decrease in banana imports …How governments regulate food safety and environmental protection, including pesticide residue levels, has important … food safety and environmental standards: Do regulations on pesticide have an effect on trade?The authors examine regulatory …

to the European Union (EU). As a novelty to the literature, we analyse the impacts of EU pesticide standards on African … Africa’s exports of tomatoes to the EU from 2008 to 2013, using the gravity model of trade. Our results show that at both the … extensive and intensive margins of trade, the high stringency of EU pesticide standard prevents new entry into the EU market …