Standards and Trade Performance: the UK Experience

Swann, Peter F.; Temple, Paul; Shurmer, Mark

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“…Maskus, Wilson, and Otsuki (2001) summarize alternative approaches to estimating the impact of standards in general on trade. Previous studies by Swann, Temple, and Shurmer (1996), van Beers and van den Bergh (1997), Peridy, Guillotreau, and Bernard (2000), and Wilson and Otsuki (2004) 1990-2004(NMFS 2005a, 2005b. Superscript x stands for either the volume of imports (Imports Q it ) or the dollar value of imported seafood (Imports $ it ).…”

Section: The Panel Model Approach To Analysis Of Haccp Trade Impactsmentioning

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Standards as Barriers Versus Standards as Catalysts: Assessing the Impact of HACCP Implementation on U.S. Seafood Imports

Anders

Caswell

2009

American J Agri Economics

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The United States mandated a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) food safety standard for seafood in 1997. Panel model results for 1990 to 2004 suggest that HACCP introduction had a negative and significant impact on overall imports from the top thirty-three suppliers. While the effect for developed countries was positive, the negative effect for developing countries supports the view of "standards as barriers" versus "standards as catalysts." A different perspective emerges from individual country-level analysis. Regardless of development status, leading seafood exporters generally experienced a positive HACCP effect, while most other smaller trading partners faced a negative effect.

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Section: The Panel Model Approach To Analysis Of Haccp Trade Impactsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Standards as Barriers Versus Standards as Catalysts: Assessing the Impact of HACCP Implementation on U.S. Seafood Imports

Anders

Caswell

2009

American J Agri Economics

165

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“…Econometric approaches have been used to estimate the effect of standards on trade flows (Swann et al 1996;Moenious 1999). These two studies employ counts of binding standards in a given industry as a measure of stringency of standards.…”

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The Economics of Quarantine and the SPS Agreement

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2012

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This collection resulted from an international workshop funded and organised by Biosecurity Australia, the agency of government responsible for analysing Australia's quarantine import risks and for negotiating multilateral SPS rules and less restrictive access to overseas markets for Australian produce. The workshop, which was held at the Melbourne Business School on 24-25 October 2000, brought together a distinguished group of applied economists and quarantine policy analysts whose focus involves regions as disparate as Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and New Zealand, in addition to Australia.

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“…However we can make use of the close association between measurement and industrial standards made publicly available through the national standards bodies (NSBs) discussed above. In the current context the existence of a catalogue of standards which can be counted provides a means of measuring the 'size' of their impact -a methodology used initially in Swann et al (1996) and considerably extended by Blind in a series of important studies (for example Blind 2001Blind , 2004, and in the specific context of German-UK trade by Blind and Jungmittag (2005). This paper further develops the approach by considering a sub-set of 'measurement related' standards.…”

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Taking the measure of things: the role of measurement in EU trade

2011

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In this paper theoretical and empirical models of intra-industry trade are developed in which economic activities, based on measurement and an associated measurement infrastructure, play a role in creating product variety. The paper discusses how the measurement infrastructure which includes institutions conducting metrological research and standard setting organization reduces transactions costs, especially in markets where differences in product characteristics are important. The theoretical analysis focuses on the public good characteristics of the measurement infrastructure, considering how the infrastructure impacts upon trade in a model based upon product differentiation under monopolistic competition. In the econometric analysis, indicators of the strength of the infrastructure within the EU, both across industries and across countries, suggest that measurement activities are important in determining the extent of bi-lateral EU intra-industry trade. Despite many common elements in the measurement infrastructure across the EU, there is also some evidence of differential access to the infrastructure among EU members.

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Standards and Trade Performance: the UK Experience

Cited by 230 publications

References 18 publications

Standards as Barriers Versus Standards as Catalysts: Assessing the Impact of HACCP Implementation on U.S. Seafood Imports

Standards as Barriers Versus Standards as Catalysts: Assessing the Impact of HACCP Implementation on U.S. Seafood Imports

The Economics of Quarantine and the SPS Agreement

Taking the measure of things: the role of measurement in EU trade

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