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Book SynopsisWritten by leading scholars and analysts, the essays in Import Safety provide background and policy guidance on improving consumer safety in imported food, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and toys and other consumer products aimed at children.
Trade Review"
Import Safety provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the challenges faced by both governments and domestic and foreign firms in protecting consumers from unsafe imported goods. It not only describes and documents the magnitude of this challenge but also offers a number of creative legal and administrative solutions to address it." * David Vogel, Solomon P. Lee Chair in Business Ethics, University of California, Berkeley *
"An important book. I am impressed by the way it tackles the food safety problems created by globalization and explains why our current regulatory systems are failing to protect the public. Best, it offers highly innovative ways to solve food safety problems and should be welcomed by policy makers the world over. Anyone who cares about the safety of food and other imports needs to read this book." * Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University *
"This timely volume provides a broad perspective on the complexities and problems involved in controlling the quality of imported products in world trade. . . . A valuable resource for anyone interested in this topic, which touches all of our lives." *
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Table of ContentsPreface
PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON THE PROBLEM
1. Consumer Protection in an Era of Globalization
—Cary Coglianese, Adam M. Finkel, and David Zaring
2. The Other China Trade Deficit: Export Safety Problems and Responses
—Jacques deLisle
3. Parochialism About the Safety of Imports
—Jonathan Baron
PART II: INTERNATIONAL TRADE INSTITUTIONS
4. Import Safety Regulation and International Trade
—Tracey Epps and Michael J. Trebilcock
5. The Politics of Food Safety in the Age of Global Trade: The Codex Alimentarius Commission in the SPS Agreement of the WTO
—Tim Büthe
6. Import Safety Rules and Generic Drug Markets
—Kevin Outterson
PART III: TOWARD SMARTER REGULATION
7. Forecasting Consumer Safety Violations and Violators
—Richard Berk
8. Risk-Based Regulation for Import Safety
—Lorna Zach and Vicki Bier
9. Solving the Problem of Scale: The European Approach to Import Safety and Security Concerns
—Alberto Alemanno
PART IV: LEVERAGING THE PRIVATE SECTOR
10. Importers as Regulators: Product Safety in a Globalized World
—Kenneth A. Bamberger and Andrew T. Guzman
11. Bonded Import Safety Warranties
—Tom Baker
12. Private Import Safety Regulation and Transnational New Governance
—Errol Meidinger
PART V: THE WAY FORWARD
13. Delegated Governance: Consumer Safety in the Global Marketplace
—David Zaring and Cary Coglianese
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
