Sturm, Daniel 
ORCID: 0000-0001-6408-8089
(2002)
Product standards, trade disputes and protectionism.
In: European Research Workshop in International Trade - ERWIT, 2002-06-14 - 2002-06-17, Munich, Germany, DEU.
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Abstract
Trade disputes over national product standards are a growing source of tension in the international trading system. The usual pattern is that a country introduces a new product standard for all sales of a good in its local market, which is justified as necessary for consumer or environmental protection. Importers into the local market, however, challenge the standard as a ''disguised barrier to trade'' or ''green protectionism''. The paper develops a two country political economy model to explain such disputes. It is shown how the political process can lead to a ''political failure'' which takes the form of either too many or too few product standards and disagreement between politicians in different countries over the optimal policy. In a second step the model is used to evaluate whether two common proposals to settle or avoid such disputes, mutual recognition of standards and harmonization, can improve the political process.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.cepr.org/meets/meetings/meetdesc.asp?me... |
| Additional Information: | © 2002 Daniel Sturm |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance Economics |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2008 11:51 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2025 23:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/20901 |
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