TY  - JOUR
AU  - Engel,Eduardo
TI  - Poisoned Grapes, Mad Cow, and Protectionism
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6959
PY  - 1999
Y2  - February 1999
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6959
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6959.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Eduardo Engel
Yale University
Department of Economics
P.O. Box 208268
New Haven, CT  06520-8268
Tel: 203/432-5595
Fax: 203/432-5779
E-Mail: eduardo.engel@yale.edu
AB  - This paper studies two episodes where an exporting industry saw its sales plummet after importing countries banned their products to protect their citizens' health.  The first case is the poisoned grapes crisis involving Chile and the United States in 1989.  The second is the mad cows dispute between the United Kingdom and the European Union in 1996.  These case studies motivate  a new definition of  protectionist measure' which is applied to argue the European Union's ban on British beef exports did not constitute a protectionist measure, while the US ban on Chilean fruit possibly classifies as such a measure.
ER  -