When will trade restrictions affect producer behavior: Oligopsony power in international trade

In recent years an increasingly common feature in international trade is cases where animporting country finds production practices in exporting countries unacceptable, and whereone seeks to change these practices by imposing trade restrictions. Examples includeunacceptable environmental practices, anti-dumping, child labour and social dumping. Trademeasures implemented to influence such practices depend on the importer’s degree of marketpower to be effective. In particular, they will have no effect if the importing country does nothave oligopsony power...