Abstract
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed to revamp its international and domestic screening system, and is the subject of a new-food safety bill. An importer first needs to submit information identifying the product, its quantity, country of origin, shipper, manufacturer, and importer to export a food product to the US. If the product is refused entry, the importer is informed, and may provide further information supporting the product's compliance or a plan to bring the product into compliance, such as relabeling. A decrease in employment by US industry is positively correlated with refusals. Although not strongly significant, a decrease in import price also leads to more refusals. Lobbying expenditure increases the number of refusals for those sectors and times where there is a high volume of imports. Decrease in employment for a particular sector is correlated with a higher number of refusals.
Original language | English (US) |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 1477-1483 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | American Journal of Agricultural Economics |
Volume | 91 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2009 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Economics and Econometrics