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Author(s)
Olusegun Sansi
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DOI:10.17265/1537-1514/2018.05.006
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Centre for Sustainable Industrial and Integrated Development, Ibadan, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
Analysis of 2002-2010
variables of Subsaharan African countries annual cocoa beans and beef export
outputs to the EU, obtained from World Trade Organization database, showed
haphazard increases in the annual export outputs. This was attributed to impose
stringent SPS measures causing market access restrictions of agricultural
exports. The specific objectives are to determine the effect of sanitary and
phytosanitary measures of Subsaharan African countries agricultural exports
trading partners on agricultural exports market access, analyse the effect of
sanitary and phytosanitary measures of Subsaharan African agricultural trading
partners on agricultural exports, and analyse the sanitary and phytosanitary standards
of Subsaharan African countries agricultural exports trading partners for
stringency. Descriptive statistics were utilized to analyze a time series data
of variables of annual agricultural export consignments border rejections
caused by hazard measures of the EU export market in 2002-2010, obtained from
RASFF annual reports. A comparative analysis of Codex Alimentarius International
recommended cocoa aflatoxin standard and variables of cocoa aflatoxin standards
for Subsaharan African countries cocoa exports trading partners was done. The study showed that
SPS measures of Subsaharan African agricultural exports EU trading partners
caused 98.339% of 24,281 agricultural export consignments border rejections in
the EU export market in the period. The major SPS hazard measures include
mycotoxin (26.298%), chemical (9.674%), microbe (7.807%), potential pathogenic
microorganisms (7.674%), veterinary residue (7.467%), heavy metals (4.62%), pesticide residue (4.198%), migration (3.18%), and food additives (3.07%). The result also
showed that the European Union aflatoxin B1 standard level of 2
ug/Kg for cocoa exports was the most stringent aflatoxin
B1 standard level and next in stringent level was the Chinese trading partners
5 ug/Kg aflatoxin B1 standard level for cocoa exports. This implied that SPS
measures causes market access restrictions of agricultural exports and
constrain agricultural exports in the EU export market.
KEYWORDS
Subsaharan, agricultural, exports, consignments, sanitary and phytosanitary
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