Assessing the relevance of EU SPS measures to the food export sector: Evidence from a developing agro-food exporting country |
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| Institution: | 1. Centre for Global Animal Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden;2. Central Veterinary Institute, Lelystad, Wageningen UR, 8200 AB Lelystad, The Netherlands;3. Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Suedufer 10, 17493 Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany;4. International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya;5. Center for Animal Health and Food Safety, University of Minnesota, 1354 Eckles Avenue, St Paul, Minnesota 22940, USA;6. Department of Production and Population Health, Royal Veterinary College, Hawkshead Lane, North Mymms AL9 7TA, UK |
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| Abstract: | This study was undertaken to assess whether SPS measures prevailing in the European Union (EU) have had an effect on the export of fishery and horticultural products from Mauritius. Specific objectives were to assess and compare the importance of EU SPS measures as an export determinant for Mauritian fishery and horticultural products exports, to determine whether these measures have acted as a barrier to trade and lastly to describe the compliance strategy adopted by exporters using firm-level surveys and in-depth interviews with key informants. The results suggest that, most respondents considered that public and private SPS requirements were not an important export determinant in agro-food trade with the EU and were not acting as barriers to exports. The compliance strategy used by the majority of exporters was mainly reactive. |
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| Keywords: | Fishery Horticultural Agro-food export Sanitary Phytosanitary |
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