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Externalities and Agricultural Import Bans: Evaluating Regionalization Measures in Light of the Russia–Pigs Dispute

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2019

EMILY BLANCHARD  and
MARK WU
EMILY BLANCHARD*
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College
MARK WU*
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School
*
*Email: emily.blanchard@tuck.dartmouth.edu.
**Email: mwu@law.harvard.edu.
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Abstract

Article 6 of the SPS Agreement presents a series of interlinked obligations for importing and exporting countries of diseased agricultural products. The Russia–Pigs dispute raises the question of when an importing country is justified in imposing a ban on products from exporting countries unaffected by the disease, on the basis of the fact that the country is part of the same customs union as another country inflicted with the disease. This Article contends that four distinct classes of cross-border and cross-product externalities ought to play an important role when assessing this question in the future. It discusses the possible roles to be played by bilateral, sequential, pass-through, and supply chain externalities in propagating the transmission of agricultural disease across borders through trade.

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Original Articles
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World Trade Review , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , April 2019 , pp. 173 - 195
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Copyright © Emily Blanchard and Mark Wu 2019 

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Footnotes

For helpful comments and discussion, we thank Maria Alcover, Chad Bown, Colette van der Ven, and the other participants at the 2017 WTO Case Law Conference held at the European University Institute, June 2018.

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