Import safety : regulatory governance in the global economy / edited by Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel, and David Zaring.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coglianese, Cary.

Finkel, Adam M.

Zaring, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumer protection--Law and legislation.

Consumer protection.

Imports--Safety measures.

Imports.

Product safety--Law and legislation.

Product safety.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On World Food Day in October 2008, former president Bill Clinton finally accepted decade-old criticism directed at his administration's pursuit of free-trade deals with little regard for food safety, child labor, or workers' rights. "We all blew it, including me when I was president. We blew it. We were wrong to believe that food was like some other product in international trade." Clinton's public admission came at a time when consumers in the United States were hearing unsettling stories about contaminated food, toys, and medical products from China, and the first real calls were being made for more regulation of imported products. Import Safety comes at a moment when public interest is engaged with the subject and the government is receptive to the idea of consumer protections that were not instituted when many of the Clinton era's free-trade pacts were drafted.Written by leading scholars and analysts, the chapters in Import Safety provide background and policy guidance on improving consumer safety in imported food, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and toys and other products aimed at children. Together, they consider whether policymakers should approach import safety issues through better funding of traditional interventions-such as regulatory oversight and product liability-or whether this problem poses a different kind of governance challenge, requiring wholly new methods.

Contents:

Consumer protection in an era of globalization / Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel, and David Zaring

The other China trade deficit : export safety / Jacques deLisle

Parochialism about the safety of imports / Jonathan Baron

Import safety regulation and international trade / Tracey Epps and Michael J. Trebilcock

The politics of food safety in the age of global trade : the Codex Alimentarius Commission in the SPS Agreement of the WTO / Tim Buthe

Import safety rules and generic drug markets / Kevin Outterson

Forecasting consumer safety violations and violators / Richard Berk

Risk-based regulation for import safety / Lorna Zach and Vicki Bier

Solving the problem of scale : the European approach to import safety and security concerns / Alberto Alemanno

Importers as regulators : product safety in a globalized world / Kenneth A. Bamberger and Andrew T. Guzman

Bonded import safety warranties / Tom Baker

Private import safety regulation and transnational new governance / Errol Meidinger

Delegated governance : consumer safety in the global marketplace / David Zaring and Cary Coglianese.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781283896368

1283896362

9780812205916

081220591X

OCLC:

794929415