Saving two in a billion:: quantifying the trade effect of European food safety standards on African exports

By T. Otsuki, J. Wilson, Mirvat Sewadeh. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science

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Technical regulations and specialization in international trade (2008, background): “Maskus, Otsuki and Wilson (2005) find that poor country firms’ short run costs increase significantly when facing technical regulations.”
The Effects of Non‐tariff Measures on Agri‐food Trade: A Review and Meta‐analysis of Empirical Evidence (2018, background): “The Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) tend to act as barrier to trade (e.g. Otsuki et al., 2001 a, b; Chen et al., 2008; Ferro et al., 2015).”
Balancing food safety and risk: do drug residue limits affect international trade in beef? (2003, methodology): “A gravity model was first developed by Tinbergen (1962) and Pöyhönen (1963) to explain bilateral trade flows by trading partners’ GNP and geographical distance between countries. Among the recent application, Moenius’ (2000) gravity model provides a framework for estimating the effect of product sta”
Assessing the Potential Benefit of Trade Facilitation: A Global Perspective (2004, background): “Otsuki, Wilson, and Sewadeh (2001a, 2001b) find that 10 percent tighter food standards in the European Union would reduce African exports of certain cereals, nuts, and dried foods by a range of 5 to 11 percent, depending on the category.”
Measuring the economic impacts of Fusarium toxins in animal feeds (2007, background): “Previous attempts to measure this effect have included large elements of uncertainty (Wu, 2004; Wu et al., 2004; Vardon et al., 2003; Otsuki et al., 2001), because there are not enough specific data that allow more reliable estimates to be undertaken.”
Measuring the Effect of Food Safety Standards on China’s Agricultural Exports (2008, neutral): “26 Otsuki et al. (2001) and Wilson et al.”
The Combination of Gravity and Welfare Approaches for Evaluating Nontariff Measures (2010, neutral): “Many recent empirical assessments of NTMs have been mercantilist focusing on forgone trade via gravity estimation (see for example Otsuki, Wilson, and Sewadeh 2001a and b; Wilson and Otsuki 2004; Disdier, Fontagné, and Mimouni 2008; Anders and Caswell 2009).”
Harmonisation of food regulations and trade in the Single Market: evidence from disaggregated data (2006, background): “…of data limitations, these papers focused on the trade impact of voluntary standards rather than on TBT. Key differences between our paper and Otsuki et al. (2001) are: (i) the testable hypothesis of the effect of regulations, (ii) the quantification of harmonisation, (iii) a generalisation…”
Standards as Barriers Versus Standards as Catalysts: Assessing the Impact of HACCP Implementation on U.S. Seafood Imports (2009, positive): “Comparing results, Otsuki, Wilson, and Sewadeh (2001) forecast a negative impact of stricter standards on exports to the EU from developing countries in Africa.”