Poisoned grapes, mad cows and protectionism

Eduardo Engel

Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2001, vol. 4, issue 2, 91-111

Abstract: This paper studies two episodes where a ban on imports was imposed to safeguard people's health. The first case is the poisoned grapes crisis involving Chile and the United States in 1989. The second is the “mad cows” dispute, which broke out in 1996, between the United Kingdom and the European Union. These case studies motivate a new definition of “protectionist measure” which is applied to argue that the European Union's ban on British beef exports was not protectionist, while the US ban on Chilean fruit possibly classifies as such a measure.

Date: 2001
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13841280008523415 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
Working Paper: Poisoned Grapes, Mad Cows and Protectionism (2000)
Working Paper: Poisoned Grapes, Mad Cow, and Protectionism (1999)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:jpolrf:v:4:y:2001:i:2:p:91-111

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/GPRE19

DOI: 10.1080/13841280008523415

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Economic Policy Reform is currently edited by Dr Judith Clifton

More articles in Journal of Economic Policy Reform from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().