The Impact of Regulations on Agro-Food Trade
Subtitle: The Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Agreements
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9789264105423
Subjects: Agriculture and Food; Business; Commerce
Description: Agricultural trade disputes over issues such as beef hormones and genetically modified organisms have received wide public attention and illustrated the trade-off between domestic and international policy objectives. This report examines pertinent issues at the interface between domestic policy objectives, technical regulations and agricultural trade. It also discusses approaches to measuring the trade impacts of food safety and other technical measures, and presents empirical evidence concerning the trade effects of resolving controversial food safety issues.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Background; title: Chapter 2. Implementation of TBT and SPS Agreement; title: -Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT); title: Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS); title: Chapter 3. Quantifying the Economic Impactof Technical Measures; title: -Definitions of a Non-Tariff Barrier; title: An Analytical Framework for Measurement; title: The Price Wedge Method; title: Inventories-Based Approaches; title: Survey-Based Approaches; title: Gravity-Based Approaches; title: Risk Assessment-Based Cost-Benefit Measures; title: Stylised Microeconomic Approaches; title: Quantification Using Sectoral or Multi-Market Models; title: Chapter 4. Model-Based Findings on the Impact of SPS Measures; title: -Import Bans; title: Techncial Specifications; title: Overall Assessment of Model-Based Analysis; title: Chapter 5. Measuring the Trade Effects of SPS Agreement Through Trade Data Analysis; title: -Defining Potential Trade Effects of the SPS Agreement; title: Data and Analysis Needed to Calculate the Trade Impact; title: Some Partial Evidence of Trade Impacts of the SPS Agreement; title: Summary Observations; title: Annex 1. Summary of WTO Committee Interventions and Disputes in the Area of Health and Safety; title: Annex 2. Overview of the TBT and SPS Agreements; title: Bibliography