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Challenges for China's Agricultural Exports: Compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

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  • Dong, Fengxia
  • Jensen, Helen H.

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In the food safety arena, a clear role for government is to adopt sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures to protect human, animal, and plant life or health. Relative to developing countries, developed countries tend to adopt more stringent food safety standards and regulations with a broader scope and to rely increasingly on certification and traceability. The additional costs of compliance for meeting international SPS requirements are higher for firms operating in developing countries because they must take additional steps to meet international food safety regulations and standards. Therefore, their comparative advantage, achieved through lower production costs, will tend to be reduced because of high incremental compliance costs. Given that a high proportion of developing countries' exports are agricultural and food products and that export destinations are mainly developed countries, concerns have arisen that SPS measures are affecting developing countries' access to export markets.
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  • Dong, Fengxia & Jensen, Helen H., 2007. "Challenges for China's Agricultural Exports: Compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures," Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 22(1), pages 1-6.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaeach:94456
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.94456
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    1. Carl GAIGNÉ & Cathie LAROCHE DUPRAZ & Alan MATTHEWS, 2015. "Thirty years of European research on international trade in food and agricultural products," Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - Revue d'Etudes en Agriculture et Environnement, INRA Department of Economics, vol. 96(1), pages 91-130.
    2. World Bank, 2009. "China : Mid-Term Evaluation of China's Eleventh Five-Year," World Bank Publications - Reports 3025, The World Bank Group.
    3. Glynn T. Tonsor & Ted C. Schroeder & Joost M. E. Pennings & James Mintert, 2009. "Consumer Valuations of Beef Steak Food Safety Enhancement in Canada, Japan, Mexico, and the United States," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 57(3), pages 395-416, September.
    4. Knobel, Alexander (Кнобель, Александр), 2018. "Assessment of the Benefits, Risks and Costs of the Transition to the Regime of Preferential Trade and Economic Interaction with the People's Republic of China [Оценка Выгод, Рисков И Издержек Перех," Working Papers 061827, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
    5. Sushant Acharya & Sagar Raj Sharma & Bishnu Raj Upreti & Marie-Luise Matthys, 2021. "Why Nepal’s main agricultural export product, large cardamom, does not reach the world market," SN Business & Economics, Springer, vol. 1(1), pages 1-21, January.

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