The effects of sanitary and phytosanitary barriers on the international trade of apples from France and Chile

Les effets des barrières SPS sur le commerce international de pommes en provenance de la France et du Chili

Federica Demaria and Sophie Drogué

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: In the case of fresh vegetable products, trade is governed by two types of SPS requisites, those protecting humans' health and those protecting plants' health. Food safety standards like Maximum Residual Levels (MRL) of any contaminant, apply indiscriminately to the domestic and foreign producers. The only divergence is that each country is free to adopt its own standard. In the context of pest and disease management, the phytosanitary protocols are not only set by each country independently but can also be discriminating between domestic and foreign producers but also across foreign producers. Moreover the level of the standard can vary greatly over time because a country may be affected by a pest or a disease regarding for instance favorable climatic conditions. Consequently a tightening in a partner standard may induce an increase in the cost of compliance with the standard and affect the competitiveness of countries that were major exporters, causing a redistribution of the market shares. Even if these standards have an incidental impact on trade, it is still interesting to measure it as the size of the impact can incentivize policymakers in negotiating bilateral phytosanitary requirements. Our objective is to assess the impact of sanitary and phytosanitary regulations as well as diseases and pest management measures on French and Chilean apples trade.

Keywords: cost of compliance; sps measures; scoring; gravity model of trade; apples (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-08-29
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02785527v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published in 15. EAAE Congress 'Towards Sustainable Agri-food Systems: Balancing Between Markets and Society', Aug 2017, Parme, Italy. 1 p., 2017

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02785527v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: The effects of sanitary and phytosanitary barriers on the international trade of apples from France and Chile (2016)
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:hal:journl:hal-02785527

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().