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What Price Precaution? European Harmonisation of Aflatoxin Regulations and African Groundnut Exports

Tsunehiro Otsuki

出版	SSRN, 2010
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uTrrzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The effects of varying regulatory standards on trade in agricultural products are at the forefront of policy debate. This paper employs a gravity model to estimate the impact of changes in aflatoxin standards on trade flows of groundnut products using trade data for Europe and Africa during 1989-1998. Results suggest that a 10 per cent tighter aflatoxin standard in European countries will reduce edible groundnut imports by 11 per cent. A new European Union regulation on aflatoxins will result in a trade flow that is 63 per cent lower than when the Codex Alimentarius international standards are followed.