Understanding Administered Barriers to Trade

Title: Understanding Administered Barriers to Trade
Published in: Proceedings Issues
Editors: Orden, D., and D. Roberts, eds.
Year: 1997
Meeting Date: December 1995
Meeting Location: Tucson, AZ
Publication Details: IATRC Proceedings Issue

Summary:

Understanding Technical Barriers to Agricultural Trade
David Orden and Donna Roberts, eds., January, 1997

This volume contains the main papers presented at an IATRC annual meeting. The theme day focused on Understanding Technical Barriers to Trade, and was held December 14-16, 1995 in Tucson, AZ.  Technical barriers affecting agriculture are emerging at the center of international commercial disputes with increased frequency. These barriers includes sanitary and phytosanitary regulations and other measures which establish rules for quality, packaging, labeling, standards of identity, and conformity assessment. Their new prominence is due in part to growing worldwide demand for enhanced food safety, and for an environment that is protected from pests and diseases. Expanded international trade in processed food products, on which technical regulations are often applied, also contributes to their heightened visibility. Moreover, the recent Agreement on Agriculture of he World Trade Organization, has increased the relative, and perhaps the absolute, importance of technical barriers by reducing tariffs and disciplining nontariff quantitative limits on agricultural trade.

• Front Materials
• Determinants of Technical Barriers to Trade: The Case of US Phytosanitary Restrictions on Mexican Avocados, 1972-1995
  Roberts, Donna; Orden, David
• End-Use Certificates for Wheat: Trade-Distorting Administrative Barriers?
  Gray, Richard; Buckingham, Donald E.
• Impact of WTO on CODEX Alimentarius and Its Implications for World Trade
  Dawson, Richard J.
• Implementation of the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: The U.S. Perspective
  Thiermann, Alex
• Implications of the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
  Stanton, Gretchen H.
• The Intersection of Law and Trade in the WTO System: Economics and the Transition to a Hard Law System
  Abbott, Frederick M.
• ITC Injury Determination and the Abuse of Antidumping Law: Evidence from the United States Manufacturing Industries
  Staiger, Robert W.; Wolak, Frank K.
• National Administered Protection Agencies: Their Role in the Post-Uruguay Round World
  Meilke, Karl D.; Sarker, Rakhal
• Nontariff Agricultural Trade Barriers Revisited
  Hillmann, Jimmye S.
• The Political Economy of Administered Decisions: What We Might Hope For and What We Can Expect
  Tullock, Gordon
• The Political Economy of US Import Restrictions on Nursery Stock and Ornamental Plants in Growing Media
  Romano, Eduardo; Orden, David