Open AccessThe Impact of Food Safety Standards on Agro-food Exports to Belt and Road Countries
Author(s) -
Huijuan Li
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/453/1/012028
Subject(s) - china , product (mathematics) , agriculture , agricultural economics , food safety , international trade , technical barriers to trade , business , food standards , lag , technical standard , economics , geography , trade barrier , political science , mathematics , medicine , geometry , archaeology , pathology , law , computer network , computer science
This paper explores the effects of mandatory standards and voluntary standards on China exports of agriculture goods to the Belt and Road(B&R for short) countries from the perspective of the stocks of China’s food standards. The panel dataset covers four products from 2002 to 2015 based on the International Classification of Standards (ICS). The empirical results generally indicate that China’s mandatory national standards have negative effects on its exports to B&R countries. Given the lag effect of standards, one-year lagged standard variables are included in the model specification, and the estimates of these one-year lagged standards show that one-year lagged standards have positive and significant impacts on China’s export performance to the region, except for one-year lagged voluntary national standards, which are insignificant statistically. In addition, this paper investigates the effects of standards on the exports of specific product groups to the region, and finds out different effects of standards for different product groups.