Journal
WORLD ECONOMY
Volume 42, Issue 4, Pages 1057-1076Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/twec.12756
Keywords
food standards; international trade; Norway; seafood; WTO SPS agreement
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- Research Council of Norway [216742, 233836]
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Recent research shows that the effect of food standards can be heterogeneous across sectors or countries: they sometimes act as barriers to trade, but in other cases may lead to increased trade. I present empirical evidence on Norwegian seafood exports showing that foreign food standards, measured by sanitary and phytosanitary notifications to the WTO, generally have a negative impact on total exports, the number of exporters and their average exports. However, for fresh seafood, there is a positive counteracting effect. I present a theoretical explanation for this, suggesting that food standards reduce consumer uncertainty about quality and safety and therefore increase demand.
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