Investigating The Impact Of Health and Enviromental Standards on Exports: The Case Of Egyptian Agro-Food Exports To The EU

Dina Mandour ()
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Dina Mandour: Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University
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No 707, Working Papers from Economic Research Forum

Abstract: This study aims at assessing the impact of EU Health and Environment (H&E) standards on Egyptian agro-food exports. Two objectives were addressed, namely: understanding the extent to which agrofood exports to the EU are subject to H&E trade barriers and investigating the impact of H&E standards imposed by the EU on export performance of Egyptian firms in the agro-food sector. The results of the survey were analyzed descriptively and quantitatively. The study showed that a considerable percentage of agro-food exports to the EU are subject to SPS restrictions in terms of the frequency ratio of detentions and the percentage of the value of total agro-food exports to the EU. Nevertheless, the conventional general argument that H&E standards impede trade and are consequently a disguised form of NTBs, can not be simply accepted. The findings of the econometric analysis showed that H&E standards exert a significant positive effect on export performance of firms. Both awareness of firms in terms of complying with H&E standards and costs of compliance as well as importing market restrictions related to H&E standards had a significant positive impact on the export performance of the firms in the sample. Nevertheless, many domestic and external institutional constraints exist that deprive exporters from achieving optimum benefits from compliance.

Pages: 35
Date: 2007-01-01, Revised 2007-01-01
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