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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"phytosanitary measures"”.
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Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: The Case of Mexican Avocados
… and prices of partial easing of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) barriers to trade in the U.S. market in the case of Mexican avocados. The SPS Agreement plays a role in the avocado market studied here through its implications for negotiations between countries that have not utilized the formal …
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Trade Barriers or Trade Catalysts? The Effects of Phytosanitary Measures on U.S. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Imports
… To address this concern, USDA's APHIS implements phytosanitary measures that mitigate pest and disease risks. These regulations vary from documentation requirements, inspection, or requiring that shipments receive a phytosanitary treatment. A growing body of literature attempts to assess the …
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New Market Access in Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Imports to the United States
… the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures from the Uruguay Round of the World Trade Organization negotiations, there have been numerous requests to export fresh fruits and vegetables to the United States. From 1996 to 2008, the United States has granted new market …
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Epidemiology of Banana streak virus (BSV) in East African highland bananas (AAA-EA)
… and is therefore probably amenable to control by phytosanitary measures. These would comprise primarily of the use of virus-free planting material and roguing infected plants. BSV spread predominantly within-field once initial infections were established. New infections were more likely to occur …
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An Empirical Assessment of the Effects of SPS Regulations on U.S. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exports
… To address this issue, all countries maintain measures to ensure that imported food is safe for consumers, and to prevent the spread of disease among animals and plants. These measures, by their nature, can affect competitiveness by increasing the costs of imports or prohibiting them …
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Technical barriers to trade for the importation of Australian veterinary biological vaccines to the European Union
… Article XX and the Agreements on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and the Technical Barriers to Trade. This analysis aims to assist a better understanding of the new global trade order under the WTO regime as it deals with the contradiction between safety concerns versus market access and …
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Gene drives and international trade : an analysis of World Trade Organization rules and their governance of ecosystem-altering organisms
… will govern. The WTO's Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) is an especially pertinent set of trade rules which permits trade restrictions aimed at protecting the health of a country's citizens or other species only when scientific evidence supports the perception of …
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Three Essays in Empirical Economics
… important for agricultural trade, sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) and technical barriers to trade (TBT). The results suggest that harmonization of non-tariff measures inside RTAs matters: Agreements that liberalize these policies increase members' agricultural trade by an additional 62 …
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An Assessment of Technical Barriers in Central American Agricultural and Food Trade
… explores technical regulations (sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, technical barriers to trade, and geographical indications) in Central American agricultural and food trade. In the first part, a framework to systematically evaluate the broad issues for developing countries is …
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The Impact of Technical Measures on Agricultural Trade: A Case of Uganda, Senegal, and Mali."Improving Food Security through Agricultural Trade"
This thesis estimates the impact of non-tariff measures (NTMs) notified by the importing countries on agricultural trade. The non-tariff measures constitute the technical measures notified under the SPS and TBT agreements and the non-technical measures to trade. Two approaches are used; the …
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Three Essays on Agricultural Trade Policy
… essays examining the impacts of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures on agricultural trade. The first essay estimates the impact of the 2003 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) outbreak in the US on Japanese beef imports. I develop a source-differentiated demand system of fresh/chilled …
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Welfare Impacts Of False Codling Moth Threatening California Oranges
<p>Welfare impacts of alternative pest management strategies of False Codling Moth (FCM) threatening California's oranges are examined. Different economic agents along the supply chain of fresh oranges and orange products in the United States are considered, including consumers, retailers, …
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Efficacy and biases In inspections for biosecurity threats In South Africa
… than interceptions relative to TV, to improve phytosanitary controls on agricultural imports, especially fresh fruit.