Trade costs and demand-enhancing effects of agrifood standards: Consequences for Sub-Saharan Africa

Artikel

Agrifood standards impede trade by increasing compliance costs, but they can also enhance trade by signalling quality. This paper disentangles the trade costs and demand-enhancing effects of two important standards-technical barriers to trade, and sanitary and phytosanitary measures-on (i) global agricultural trade flows and (ii) fruit, nut, and vegetable trade between sub-Saharan Africa and high-income OECD countries. Combining estimates fromunit value and trade value regressions set within structural gravity frameworks, we show that trading standards increase trade costs-which exporters pass on to consumers in the form of higher prices-but they also increase trade volume. For agrifood exports from sub-Saharan Africa, compliance with standards guarantees market access at higher prices to high-value OECD markets.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Journal of African Trade ; ISSN: 2214-8523 ; Volume: 8 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 51-64 ; Paris: Atlantis Press

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Agriculture in International Trade ; Agricultural Policy; Food Policy ; Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
• Subject: Non-tariff measures ; sanitary and phytosanitary measures ; technical barriers to trade ; sub-Saharan Africa ; ad valorem equivalent ; gravity model

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Djimgou Tchakounte, Aristide ; Fiankor, Dela-Dem
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Atlantis Press
• (where): Paris
• (when): 2021

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.2991/jat.k.210907.001
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/267542
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET