Environmental regulation through trade: the case of shrimp

Hudson, Darren; Hite, Diane; Jaffar, Abdul Razak; Kari, Fatimah

doi:10.1016/s0301-4797(03)00061-6

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“…ª: The domestic prices were estimated by dividing the value of imports by the quantity of imports (UN FAO 2009), since the import prices reflect and approximate the domestic prices. b : Asche and Bjørndal (2001) for crustaceans in Canada, Japan and the European Union and Hudson et al (2003) for shrimps in the US by taking the average of own-price elasticities of demand over the 4 destinations in table 4 (p. 236). c : Dey et al (2004) for the aquaculture of shrimps by taking the average of own-price elasticities of demand over the top 5 world producers of shrimps in…”

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“…This application is important since the welfare measures taking into account agents' surpluses justify the tightening of standards on imported crustaceans. Our approach differs from the previous seafood studies focusing only on the ex post evaluation of past measures on trade via econometric analysis (Hudson et al 2003;Debaere 2005;Alberini et al 2008;Anders and Caswell 2009). In this article, we evaluate past policies (over the period [2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006] but also a future policy with an ex ante analysis linked to a potential standard eliminating all chloramphenicol residues in seafood.…”

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The Combination of Gravity and Welfare Approaches for Evaluating Nontariff Measures

Disdier

Marette

2010

American J Agri Economics

126

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This article explores the link between gravity and welfare frameworks for measuring the impact of non-tariff measures. First, an analytical approach suggests how to combine a gravity equation with a partial equilibrium model to determine the welfare impact of nontariff measures. Second, an empirical application focuses on the effects of a standard capping antibiotic residues in crustaceans in the United States, the European Union, Canada and Japan. While the econometric estimation of the gravity equation reports a negative impact on imports, welfare evaluations show that, in most cases, a stricter standard leads to an increase in both domestic and international welfare.

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The Combination of Gravity and Welfare Approaches for Evaluating Nontariff Measures

Disdier

Marette

2010

American J Agri Economics

126

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“…Fishing activities injure sea turtles in various ways: abrasions, lacerations, broken carapaces, deep cuts, exposed tissue, bleeding, buoyancy problems, body discoloration and, in many cases, coma and even death (Haas et al 2008). This variety of injuries has been observed in turtles stranded on beaches by shrimp trawlers (Hudson et al 2003;Bartram et al 2010), and in animals that wash up on beaches in the SINAMA lagoon system, especially during the shrimp fishing season (Sep-Oct).…”

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Perceptions of fishers to sea turtle bycatch, illegal capture and consumption in the San Ignacio‐Navachiste‐Macapule lagoon complex, Gulf of California, Mexico

Aguilar-González

Luna‐González

Aguirre

et al. 2014

Integrative Zoology

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In this study, 10% of all registered fishermen in the coastal towns of Navachiste in Sinaloa, in northwestern Mexico, answered a survey designed to collect data on their perceptions of the following topics: the impact of turtle meat consumption; human health; bycatch; illegal turtle fishing; the illegal sea turtle market; the local economy; pollution; environmental education; the success of protective legislation; and sea turtle-based ecotourism. Perceptions were analyzed using the fuzzy logic method through classification into 5 fuzzy membership sets: VL, very low; L, low; M, moderate; H, high; VH, very high. The 9 topics generated decision areas upon applying fuzzy inference that revealed the membership level of the answers in each fuzzy set. The economic potential of sea turtle-based ecotourism and the economic profitability of the illegal turtle meat market were perceived as VL. Conservation legislation was perceived as H, although inefficiently applied due to corruption. Ecotourism and impacts on sea turtles were perceived as VL, because they were deemed unprofitable activities at the individual and community levels. Environmental education was perceived as L, because it centers on nesting, hatching and releasing turtles and is directed at elementary and middle-school students. While fishers perceive a serious negative impact of fishing activities on sea turtles in the San Ignacio-Navachiste-Macapule area, they do not see themselves individually as part of the problem. Achieving sea turtle conservation in this region requires: suitable ecotourism infrastructure, government investments in promotion, and studies to estimate the minimum number of tourists needed to assure profitability.

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“…He shows that European Union (EU) trade policy (especially strict standards on antibiotic residues compared to the ones applied by the U.S.) significantly impacted the world shrimp market and shifted exports away from Europe towards the U.S. in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the added consequence of depressing U.S. prices for shrimp. Hudson, Hite, Jaffar and Kari (2003) examine ex ante the effects of a potential ban on shrimp imports by the United States from countries non-complying with the Turtle Excluder Device system. They estimate a linear expenditure system to obtain the own-price elasticity of demand for shrimp imports.…”

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The Economics and Potential Protectionism of Food Safety Standards and Inspections: An Application to the U.S. Shrimp Market

Beghin¹,

Disdier²,

Marette³

2013

Frontiers of Economics and Globalization

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We formally investigate the effects of an inspection system influencing safety of foreign and domestic food products in the domestic market. Consumers purchase domestic and imported food and value safety. Potential protectionism à la Fisher and Serra (2000) can arise: inspection frequency imposed on foreign producers set by a domestic social planner would be higher than the corresponding policy set by a global social planner treating all producers as domestic. The domestic social planner tends to impose most if not all of the inspection on foreign producers, which improves food safety for consumers and limits the production loss for domestic producers. Despite this protectionist component, inspections address a potential consumption externality such as health hazard in the domestic country when unsafe food can enter the country undetected. We then calibrate the analytical framework to the U.S. shrimp market incorporating key stylized facts of this market. Identifying protectionist inspection requires much information on inspection, safety, damages, and costs. We also investigate how to finance the inspection policy from a social-planner perspective. Financing instruments differ between the domestic and international welfare-maximizing objectives.

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Environmental regulation through trade: the case of shrimp

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

The Combination of Gravity and Welfare Approaches for Evaluating Nontariff Measures

The Combination of Gravity and Welfare Approaches for Evaluating Nontariff Measures

Perceptions of fishers to sea turtle bycatch, illegal capture and consumption in the San Ignacio‐Navachiste‐Macapule lagoon complex, Gulf of California, Mexico

The Economics and Potential Protectionism of Food Safety Standards and Inspections: An Application to the U.S. Shrimp Market

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