CONSUMERS’ PREFERENCES, CREDENCE GOODS AND THE WTO SPS AGREEMENT

Donald MacLaren

No 57915, 2003 Conference (47th), February 12-14, 2003, Fremantle, Australia from Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society

Abstract: The SPS Agreement in the WTO exists to regulate the use of import barriers to protect, inter alia, human health. Yet consumers’ preferences for food safety or for other information about food, play no part in the Agreement. The purpose in this paper is to argue that consumers’ preferences should be taken into account for food products which possess the credence characteristic, quality.

Keywords: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; International Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9
Date: 2003-02
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.57915

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