Product Standards and Margins of Trade: Firm Level Evidence
By Lionel Fontagné, G. Orefice, R. Piermartini, N. Rocha. Social Science Research Network, 2015
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This paper analyses the trade effects of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade for a large panel of French firms. To focus on restrictive product standards only, we use a new database compiling the list of measures that have been raised as concerns in dedicated committees of the WTO. We restrict our analysis to the subset of Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) regulatory measures and analyse the effects of product standards on three variables: (i) probability to export and to exit the export market (firm-product extensive margins), (ii) value exported (firm-product intensive margin) and (iii) export prices. In particular we study whether firms size, market shares and export orientation modify the effect of SPS measures. We find that SPS measures discourage exports. We also find a negative effect of SPS imposition on the intensive margins of trade. Finally, the negative effects of SPS measures on the extensive and intensive margins of trade are attenuated for big firms.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management
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- Hidden protectionism? Evidence from non-tariff barriers to trade in the United States (2019, unknown): “Several studies exploit the number of notifications of newly imposed product standards by importing countries under WTO’s Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) agreements or counter-notifications under the SPS for a cross-section or panel of trade flows (see Disdier ”
- Handbook of Deep Trade Agreements (2020, background): “The fees are $5 per ton for domestic beef; $21 5 Fontagné et al. 2015.”
- The Impact of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures on Market Entry and Trade Flows (2016, unknown): “Similar ’normalized’ frequency measures on various levels of disaggregation have also been used by Fontagné, Mimouni and Pasteels (2005); Disdier, Fontagné and Mimouni (2008); Fontagné et al. (2012). If HS4 product codes are not available, but instead the HS2 sector is listed in the concern, we assu”