The impacts of food safety standards on China's tea exports

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• 作者：Guoxue Wei^a ; ^b ; Jikun Huang^a ; ^{jkhuang.ccap@igsnrr.ac.cn} ; Jun Yang^a
• 关键词：F13 ; O2 ; Q17 ; Q18
• 刊名：China Economic Review
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：5_1043951x
• 类别：eco
• 出版时间：June, 2012
• 卷：23
• 期：2
• 页码：253-264
• 文件大小：909 K

摘要

There have been growing concerns about the effects of food safety standards on agricultural trade throughout the world. The objective of this paper is to assess the impacts of food safety standards on tea exports from China, the world鈥瞫 largest tea producer and exporter. To achieve this objective, the paper discusses the trends and nature of China鈥瞫 tea production and export, analyzes changes on tea safety standards indicated by Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures, Maximum Residual Limit (MRL) of pesticides and the coverage of tea safety standards concerning regulatory pesticides in major importing countries, and quantitatively estimates the impacts of food safety standards on China鈥瞫 tea export based on a gravity model. The results show that the MRL of pesticides (e.g., endosulfan, fenvalerate and flucythrinate) imposed by importing countries have significantly affected China鈥瞫 tea exports. The results also show that China鈥瞫 tea exports have been significantly restricted when importing countries increase coverage of tea safety standards concerning regulatory pesticides.