Beghin, John C.; David Orden (Eds.)

World Economy Vol. 35 no. 8 (August 2012): 967-1088.

NTMs, Agricultural and Food Trade, and Competitiveness  Special Issue of The World Economy (forthcoming). Selected Papers from a European Commission co-funded Project on Assessment the Impacts of Non-tariff Measures on Competitiveness of the EU and Selected Trade Partners. Guest Editors: John Beghin and David Orden. The PDF file  has the Table of Contents and teh introduction. Please contact the authors for individual papers. Once the articles are available on line, we will link directly to them.

Contents:

Overview  Key Findings of the NTM-Impact Project      David Orden, John Beghin, and Guy Henry  

The Impact of Regulatory Heterogeneity on Agri-food Trade     Niven Winchester, Marie-Luise Rau, Christian Goetz, Bruno Larue, Tsunehiro Otsuki, Karl Shutes, Christine Wieck, Heloisa Lee Burnquist, Maurício Jorge Pinto de Souza, and Rosane Nunes de Faria

 Convergence of US and EU Production Practices under the New FDA Food Safety Modernization Act  John Humphrey

 Case Studies

The Trade and Welfare Impacts of Australian Quarantine Policies: The Case of Pigmeat John Beghin and Mark Melatos

Potential of Regional and Seasonal Requirements in US Regulation of Fresh Lemon Imports Caesar Cororaton and Everett Peterson

Assessment of the Impact of Avian Influenza Related Regulatory Policies on Poultry Meat Trade and Welfare Christine Wieck, Simon Schlueter and Wolfgang Britz

Compositional Standards, Import Permits and Market Structure: The Case of Canadian Cheese Imports Marie-Hélène Felt, Bruno Larue and Jean-Philippe Gervais

 Effects of GlobalGAP on Horticultural Exports and Employment in Senegal   Liesbeth Colen, Miet Maertens and Jo Swinnen

JEL Classification: F13, F14, Q17, Q18

Keywords: Non-tariff measures (NTMs), standards, agricultural tariffs, agricultural and agri-food trade, trade impact, welfare impact

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