Munich Personal RePEc Archive  Who Does Bear the Costs of
Compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in Poor
Countries?  Shafaeddin, Mehdi (2007): Who Does Bear the Costs of
Compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in Poor
Countries?   Download (160kB) | Preview   Abstract This article
is a part of a twin study. Drawing on the available evidence, in
this paper the author examines the cost of compliance with
Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures for poor countries
with reference to Africa. He shows that the burden of cost of
compliance is entirely on the exporters despite the fact that
their capacity for the compliance is limited. He further
indicate that that, in fact, the literature often disregards the
cost of loss of exports, or rejection of products at the border
of an importing country, let alone the cost of reorganization of
the supply chain; the existing organization of supply chain in
poor countries would result in the lack of export expansion. The
purpose of the paper is not t