In modern economies, national governments have a wide
range of policies for restricting international trade and
protecting domestic industries at their disposal. The most
popular form of non-tariff trade policies is probably that
of a direct quantitative restriction. This policy takes
two principal forms: explicit import quotas and voluntary
export...
Many non-native weed pests of food, fiber, and nursery crops pose threats to U.S. environment and agriculture. Noxious weed regulations play an important role in preventing the introduction and spread of non-native plants, thereby protecting the local biodiversity, environment and economic activities. However, these regulations could also hamper agricultural trade....
Hospital patients are at high risk for foodborne illness; it is essential that hospital foodservice managers know food safety principles. The purpose of this research was to assess the basic food safety knowledge of hospital foodservice managers and to determine their interest in continuing education related to food safety. A...
The purpose of this study was to explore the possible relationship among fashion media, the social responsibility agenda of the Audubon Society, and the use of birds in millinery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both the content analysis method and the historic method were used to gain...
In June 1988 the Japanese agreed to liberalize their
beef market which had been protected by an import quota
system for twenty-four years. The purpose of this thesis is
to draw conclusions/implications concerning the effect of
the trade agreement (1988 Import Quota Removal Agreement)
upon Japanese beef imports and the...
In 1996, China started to increase its annual soybean imports at a tremendously high speed. It has become one of the most important soybean import markets for the world's largest soybean producers: the United States, Brazil and Argentina. In the meantime, the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE), a Chinese soybean futures...
This study examines the link between policy-induced
changes in the relative prices of Mexican and U.S. frozen
vegetables and their shares of the U.S. market. Several
scenarios were examined in order to assess the impacts on
quantities demanded of both U.S. and Mexican produced
frozen vegetables caused by changes in...