Tran, Nhuong; Wilson, Norbert L.W.; Hite, Diane - International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium - IATRC - 2012
The purpose of the paper is to test the hypothesis that food safety (chemical) standards act as barriers to … international seafood imports. We use zero-accounting gravity models to test the hypothesis that food safety (chemical) standards … literature findings. Our findings suggest that continually tightening of seafood safety standards has had a negative impact on …