Import Safety

by Coglianese, Cary; Finkel, Adam M.; Zaring, David

• ISBN13: 9780812242225
• ISBN10: 081224222X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-09
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

On World Food Day in October 2008, former president Bill Clinton finally accepted decade-old criticism directed at his administration's pursuit of free-trade deals with little regard for food safety, child labor, or workers' rights. "We all blew it, including me when I was president. We blew it. We were wrong to believe that food was like some other product in international trade." Clinton's public admission came at a time when consumers in the United States were hearing unsettling stories about contaminated food, toys, and medical products from China, and the first real calls were being made for more regulation of imported products. Import Safety comes at a moment when public interest is engaged with the subject and the government is receptive to the idea of consumer protections that were not instituted when many of the Clinton era's free-trade pacts were drafted. Written by leading scholars and analysts, the chapters inImport Safetyprovide background and policy guidance on improving consumer safety in imported food, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and toys and other products aimed at children. Together, they consider whether policymakers should approach import safety issues through better funding of traditional interventions--such as regulatory oversight and product liability--or whether this problem poses a different kind of governance challenge, requiring wholly new methods

Author Biography

Cary Coglianese is Associate Dean of Penn Law, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania. Adam M. Finkel is Fellow and Executive Director of the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania. David Zaring, also with the Penn Program on Regulation, is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Perspectives on the Problem
Consumer Protection in an Era of Globalization	p. 3
The Other China Trade Deficit: Export Safety Problems and Responses	p. 22
Parochialism About the Safety of Imports	p. 50
International Trade Institutions
Import Safety Regulation and International Trade	p. 69
The Politics of Food Safety in the Age of Global Trade: The Codex Alimentarius Commission in the SPS Agreement of the WTO	p. 88
Import Safety Rules and Generic Drug Markets	p. 110
Toward Smarter Regulation
Forecasting Consumer Safety Violations and Violators	p. 131
Risk-Based Regulation for Import Safety	p. 151
Solving the Problem of Scale: The European Approach to Import Safety and Security Concerns	p. 171
Leveraging the Private Sector
Importers as Regulators: Product Safety in a Globalized World	p. 193
Bonded Import Safety Warranties	p. 215
Private Import Safety Regulation and Transnational New Governance	p. 233
The Way Forward
Delegated Governance: Consumer Safety in the Global Marketplace	p. 257
List of Contributors	p. 273
Index	p. 277
Acknowledgments	p. 291
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