Impact of Food Safety Standards on Processed Food Exports from Developing Countries
By Juthathip Jongwanich. 2009
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This paper examines the impact of food safety standards on processed food exports in developing countries. A panel data econometric analysis of processed food exports in developing countries was undertaken. The Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standard (SPS) is incorporated into the model to capture the impact of food safety standards. The empirical model shows that food safety standards imposed by developed countries could impede processed food exports from developing countries. This could emerge because practically, SPS is less transparent than tariffs or quotas. There is an ample room for developed countries to tweak the standards stronger than necessary to achieve optimal levels of social protection, and to twist the related testing and certification procedures to make their competing imports more competitive. In addition, limited supply-side capacity of developing countries, especially in terms of resources, manpower as well as institution, constrains the countries to overcome food safety standards. Because of the potential benefits that could emerge from imposing food safety standards such as a reduction in transaction costs and trade friction, developing countries should view SPS not just as a trade barrier but also as an opportunity to upgrade quality standard and market sophistication. Supply-side capacity in developing countries needed to be improved, especially upgrading agriculture sector. Multilateral efforts are also needed to mobilize additional financial and technical assistance to help redress constraints in developing countries in meeting the required food safety standards imposed by developed countries.
Subfields: Food Science, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- The Effects of Non‐tariff Measures on Agri‐food Trade: A Review and Meta‐analysis of Empirical Evidence (2018, background): “…trade effects may reflect divergences among countries’ food safety regulations and standards, differences in consumers’ preferences across countries, ability (or limited capacity) to produce safe food, and willingness to pay for risk-reducing technology (Buzby and Mitchell, 2006; Jongwanich, 2009).”
- The Impact of Regulatory Heterogeneity on Agri‐Food Trade (2012, unknown): “Owing to concerns over food safety and market access in international trade, food standards have attracted much attention recently (e.g. Disdier et al., 2008; Jongwanich, 2009; Liu and Yue, 2012; Xiong and Beghin, 2012).”