The WTO and technical barriers to trade / edited by Spencer Henson and John S. Wilson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : a review of key issues / Spencer Henson and John S. Wilson -- 1. Free trade and evolving standards / Alessandra Casella -- 2. Standards and protection / Ronald Fischer and Pablo Serra -- 3. Standardization policy and international trade / Neil Gandal and Oz Shy -- 4. Trade, quality reputations and commercial policy / Rodney E. Falvey -- 5. An empirical framework for analyzing technical regulations and trade / Keith E. Maskus, Tsunehiro Otsuki and John S. Wilson -- 6. Quantitative policy analysis of sanitary, phytosanitary and technical barriers to trade / John C. Beghin and Jean-Christophe Bureau -- 7. Standards and trade performance : the UK experience /$rPeter Swann, Paul Temple and Mark Shurmer -- 8. International process standards and north-south trade / Carlo Perroni and Randall Wigle -- 9. Eco-labelling : policy considerations / Aaditya Mattoo and Harsha V. Singh -- 10. Trade and environment after the Shrimps-Turtles litigation / Petros C. Mavroidis -- 11. The sardines panel and AB rulings : some preliminary reactions / Robert Howse -- 12. Technical barriers to trade : a case study of phytosanitary barriers and U.S.-Japanese apple trade / Linda Calvin and Barry Krissoff -- 13. Import restrictions in the presence of a health risk : an illustration using FMD / Philip L. Paarlberg and John G. Lee -- 14. Food safety and trade : winners and losers in a non-harmonized world / John S. Wilson and Tsunehiro Otsuki -- 15. Non-tariff trade barriers and consumers' information : the case of the EU-US trade dispute over beef / Jean-Christophe Bureau, Stephan Marette and Alessandra Schiavina -- 16. Barriers to agricultural exports from developing countries : the role of sanitary and phytosanitary requirements / Spencer Henson and Rupert Loader -- 17. Global market effects of alternative European responses to genetically modified organisms / Chantal Pohl Nielsen and Kym Anderson.

18. The SPS agreement of the World Trade Organization and international organizations : the roles of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the international plant protection convention, and the International Office of Epizootics / Terence P. Stewart and David S. Johanson -- 19. The WTO agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures as applied in the first three SPS disputes : EC -- hormones, Australia -- salmon and Japan -- varietals / Joost Pauwelyn -- 20. The technical barriers to trade agreement, the sanitary and phytosanitary measures agreement, and the general agreement on tariffs and trade : a map of the World Trade Organization law of domestic regulation of goods / Gabrielle Marceau and Joel P. Trachtman -- 21. The (limited) role of regulatory harmonization in international goods and services markets / Alan O. Sykes -- 22. Product standards and international trade : harmonization through private coalitions? / Alessandra Casella -- 23. Is there a race to the bottom? : the impact of globalization on national regulatory policies / David Vogel.