Pesticide residues and trade, the apple of discord?

Drogué, Sophie; Demaria, Federica

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.06.007

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“…(1) This study has considered all the major food products as compared to apples and pears considered by Drogué and DeMaria (2012), (2) In contrast to the previous studies conducted in China, this research considers all the pesticides and major food exports. (3) The study uses indices recently developed by as a measure of protectionism (using the Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs)) to empirically show the impact of the SPS measures on food exports from China.…”

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Maximum residue limits and agrifood exports of China: choosing the best estimation technique

İshaq¹,

Qiu²,

Haq³

et al. 2016

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Th e main aim of the article is to show the response of the Maximum Residue Limits adopted by importing countries on exports of the selected food commodities from China. Th e study estimates the gravity model using the Ordinary Least Squares, Poisson and the Negative Binomial Regression estimators. According to the results, the Maximum Residue Limits has a trade enhancing eff ect on exports of the selected food commodities from China. Th is trade enhancing impact may be due to the current government policies to put a cut on the food safety issues, to ensure safe food for all and adopting a protectionist policy in terms of the Maximum Residues Limits for the selected commodities.

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Maximum residue limits and agrifood exports of China: choosing the best estimation technique

İshaq¹,

Qiu²,

Haq³

et al. 2016

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“…Xiong and Beghin (2012) show that intra-OECD agricultural trade is facilitated by technical measures because the regulations enhance the import demand more than they penalize foreign suppliers meeting this import demand, through higher costs. Drogué and DeMaria (2012)). …”

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Stringent Maximum Residue Limits, Protectionism, and Competitiveness: The Cases of the US and Canada

Xiong

Beghin

2016

World Scientific Studies in International Economics

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Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) on pesticides and veterinary drugs in plant and animal products are established to promote food safety and animal and plant health. In practice, however, they are often accused of creating unnecessary trade barriers. The controversy is more prominent when a given MRL is stricter than the corresponding international standard developed by Codex. Using the score indices constructed by Li and Beghin (2012), we empirically assess the implications of stringency in MRLs in plant and animal products, relative to Codex levels, for Canadian and U.S. trade performance. We find little evidence that U.S. imports are influenced by domestic stringency or those imposed by its trading partners. However, U.S. exports are negatively affected by stringency in destination markets. Canada's stringent MRLs facilitate its exports of plant and animal products and these exports do not seem to be impeded by MRL stringency in destination markets. Canada's imports do not appear to be systematically influenced by either its own or its trading partners' MRL stringency. We draw implications for the potential harmonization of MRLs between the two countries. Running head: Stringent MRLs, Protectionism, and Competitiveness in Canada and the US Abstract: Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) on pesticides and veterinary drugs in plant and animal products are established to promote food safety and animal and plant health. In practice, however, they are often accused of creating unnecessary trade barriers. The controversy is more prominent when a given MRL is stricter than the corresponding international standard developed by Codex. Using the score indices constructed by Li and Beghin (2012), we empirically assess the implications of stringency in MRLs in plant and animal products, relative to Codex levels, for Canadian and U.S. trade performance. We find little evidence that U.S. imports are influenced by domestic stringency or those imposed by its trading partners. However, U.S. exports are negatively affected by stringency in destination markets. Canada's stringent MRLs facilitate its exports of plant and animal products and these exports do not seem to be impeded by MRL stringency in destination markets. Canada's imports do not appear to be systematically influenced by either its own or its trading partners' MRL stringency. We draw implications for the potential harmonization of MRLs between the two countries.

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“…Still the drawback about the relative lax or stringent regulatory environments remains; a difference of 5ppm around a 50ppm MRL is different from a 5 ppm difference around a 10ppm MRL for a similar substance. Vigani, Raimondi, and Opler (2009), Drogué and DeMaria (2012), and Achterbosch et al (2009) offer alternative scalar summary measures of dissimilarity of policies which still present either or both of these drawbacks.…”

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Protectionism indices for non-tariff measures: An application to maximum residue levels

Beghin

2016

World Scientific Studies in International Economics

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We propose aggregation indices of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) to quantify their protectionism relative to international standards. We apply the indices to national Maximum Residue Limit (MRL) regulations affecting agricultural and food trade and using a science-based criteria embodied in Codex Alimentarius international standards. The approach links two streams of the NTM literature, one concerned with the aggregation of various NTMs into operational indices for econometric and modeling purposes, and the other attempting to evaluate the protectionism of NTMs. The data used in the application come from a large international dataset on veterinary and pesticide MRLs and CODEX MRL standards for a large set of countries KeywordsNTMs, non-tariff measures, barriers, protectionism, maximum residue limit, MRL

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Pesticide residues and trade, the apple of discord?

Cited by 123 publications

References 21 publications

Maximum residue limits and agrifood exports of China: choosing the best estimation technique

Maximum residue limits and agrifood exports of China: choosing the best estimation technique

Stringent Maximum Residue Limits, Protectionism, and Competitiveness: The Cases of the US and Canada

Protectionism indices for non-tariff measures: An application to maximum residue levels

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