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Consumers’ Preferences, Credence Goods And The Wto Sps Agreement

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The SPS Agreement in the WTO exists to regulate the use of import barriers to protect, inter alia, human health. Yet consumers’ preferences for food safety or for other information about food, play no part in the Agreement. The purpose in this paper is to argue that consumers’ preferences should be taken into account for food products which possess the credence characteristic, quality.

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  • MacLaren, Donald, 2003. "Consumers’ Preferences, Credence Goods And The Wto Sps Agreement," 2003 Conference (47th), February 12-14, 2003, Fremantle, Australia 57915, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aare03:57915
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.57915
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