Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade Caused by SPS Measures and Customs Procedures with Product Quality Changes

This study develops a methodology to quantify the combined effects of two major nontariff barriers (NTBs), sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and customs and administrative procedures. We employ a constant elasticity of substitution (CES) utility function with factor-augmenting technical prog...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lan Liu, Chengyan Yue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Agricultural Economics Association 2009-04-01
Series:Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Online Access:https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/50087