Environmental regulation and food safety : studies of protection and protectionism

Environmental, health and sanitary standards required by developed countries are sometimes perceived as new non-tariff barriers to trade. The first chapter provides background, regional scope, methodology, main issues and conclusions. Issues include the effect of trade standards on developing countries, costs of compliance, responses and policy implications. The next chapter details the two main conventions regulating standards and world trade: Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT); and the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS). In subsequent chapters, developing countries are analysed according to the effects, cost and responses to measures and regulations in those countries