Import Safety : : Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy / / ed. by Adam M. Finkel, Cary Coglianese, David Zaring.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
• MitwirkendeR: Alemanno, Alberto,; Baker, Tom,; Bamberger, Kenneth A.,; Baron, Jonathan,; Berk, Richard,; Bier, Vicki,; Büthe, Tim,; Coglianese, Cary,; Epps, Tracey,; Finkel, Adam M.,; Guzman, Andrew T.,; Meidinger, Errol,; Outterson, Kevin,; Trebilcock, Michael J.,; Zach, Lorna,; Zaring, David,; deLisle, Jacques,
• HerausgeberIn: Coglianese, Cary,; Finkel, Adam M.,; Zaring, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 20 illus.

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 in Import Safety provide 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Perspectives on the Problem -- Chapter 1. Consumer Protection in an Era of Globalization -- Chapter 2. The Other China Trade Deficit -- Chapter 3. Parochialism About the Safety of Imports -- Part II. International Trade Institutions -- Chapter 4. Import Safety Regulation and International Trade -- Chapter 5. The Politics of Food Safety in the Age of Global Trade -- Chapter 6. Import Safety Rules and Generic Drug Markets -- Part III. Toward Smarter Regulation -- Chapter 7. Forecasting Consumer Safety Violations and Violators -- Chapter 8. Risk-Based Regulation for Import Safety -- Chapter 9. Solving the Problem of Scale -- Part IV. Leveraging the Private Sector -- Chapter 10. Importers as Regulators -- Chapter 11. Bonded Import Safety Warranties -- Chapter 12. Private Import Safety Regulation and Transnational New Governance -- Part V. The Way Forward -- Chapter 13. Delegated Governance -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments