The economics of quarantine and the SPS Agreement / edited by Kym Anderson, Cheryl McRae and David Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Kym, editor.

McRae, Cheryl, editor.

Wilson, David, editor.

University of Adelaide. Centre for International Economic Studies, host institution.

Series:

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Trade Organization--Congresses.

World Trade Organization.

Imports--Australia--Congresses.

Imports.

International trade--Congresses.

International trade.

Quarantine--Australia--Congresses.

Quarantine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 414 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Economics of Quarantine & the SPS Agreement

Place of Publication:

University of Adelaide Press 2012

Adelaide : The University of Adelaide Press, 2012.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

This collection resulted from an international workshop funded and organised by Biosecurity Australia, the agency of government responsible for analysing Australia's quarantine import risks and for negotiating multilateral SPS rules and less restrictive access to overseas markets for Australian produce. The workshop, which was held at the Melbourne Business School on 24-25 October 2000, brought together a distinguished group of applied economists and quarantine policy analysts whose focus involves regions as disparate as Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and New Zealand, in addition to Australia.

Contents:

1. Introduction / Kym Anderson, Cheryl McRae and David Wilson

Part I. The multilateral rules under WTO

2. The integration of economics into SPS risk management policies: issues and challenges / Donna Roberts

3. The analytical foundation of quarantine risk analysis / Mike J. Nunn

4. The WTO dispute settlement framework and operation / Gretchen Heimpel Stanton

5. Implications of recent SPS dispute settlement cases / Gavin Goh and Andreas Ziegler

Part II. The 'appropriate level of protection'

6. Appropriate level of protection: a European perspective / Spencer Henson

7. Appropriate level of protection: an Australian perspective / Digby Gascoine

8. Appropriate level of protection: a New Zealand perspective / Hugh R. Bigsby

9. Beyond iso-risk to include benefits under the SPS Agreement / Gil Rodriguez, Nico Klijn, Anna Heaney and Stephen Beare

10. Integrating import risk and trade benefit analysis / Richard H. Snape and David Orden

Part III. Adding more economics to risk analysis

11. Least trade-restrictive SPS policies: an analytic framework is there but questions remain / David Orden, Clare Narrod and Joseph W. Glauber

12. Quarantine decision making in Australia / Monika Binder

13. Quarantine reform: Australia's recent experience / Carolyn Tanner

14. Evaluating economic consequences of livestock diseases: a US perspective / Kenneth W. Forsythe Jr

Part IV. Specific health and environmental risks from trade

15. Measuring the effect of food safety standards on African exports to Europe / Tsunehiro Otsuki, John S. Wilson and Mirvat Sewadeh

16. GMOs, the SPS Agreement and the WTO / Kym Anderson and Chantal Pohl Nielsen

17. Food safety policy in the WTO era / Sallie James

18. Environmental risk evaluation in quarantine decision making / John D. Mumford

Part V. Conclusion

19. Summing up / David Robertson

Appendix: The legal text of the SPS Agreement.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY

ISBN:

1-922064-32-7

OCLC:

839528099

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781922064325