TAILIEUCHUNG - Exporting Vietnam’s agricultural and fishery products to European Union market under green trade barriers

The study finds one important result: requirements to upgrade technology to meet the precise technical regulations and expenditure for conformity assessment actually increase production costs to small and medium companies in the short-term. | Int. J. Diplomacy and Economy, Vol. 1, Nos. 3/4, 2013 309 Exporting Vietnam’s agricultural and fishery products to European Union market under green trade barriers Nguyen Viet Khoi* VNU University of Economics and Business, 144 Xuan Thuy, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam E-mail: khoivnu@ E-mail: vn2199@ *Corresponding author Le Thi Thanh Thuy International Union for Conservation of Nature, 1st Floor, 2ABuilding, Van Phuc Diplomatic Compound, 298 Kim Ma, Ha Noi, Vietnam E-mail: thanhthuyle88@ Abstract: The number of environmental protection regulations, acting as green trade barriers is increasing despite the fact that there is no common policy framework or a powerful international organisation responsible for monitoring them. The vague borderline between environment protection and trade protectionism has fuelled many trade disputes and concerns over its negative impacts on exporting countries. This research is done with a view to providing a comprehensive theoretical framework on impacts of environmental trade barriers as well as exploring how they work in reality, especially in Vietnam and European Union trade relationship. The study finds one important result: requirements to upgrade technology to meet the precise technical regulations and expenditure for conformity assessment actually increase production costs to small and medium companies in the short-term. However, proper adjustments to these requirements will bring about long-term benefits. Specifically, studying the case of applying good agricultural practices (GAP), one kind of voluntary environment regulations reveals that GAP helps to improve products’ quality and raise the productivity, which opens an access to developed markets to gain higher profits. Keywords: green trade barrier; trade protectionism; environment protection; good agricultural practices; GAP; Vietnam export; EU market; value chain in Vietnam; Vietnam agriculture and fishery. Reference to this paper should be .

• Kinh tế học
• Journa science
• International journal of financial research
• Green trade barrier
• Trade protectionism
• Environment protection
• Good agricultural practices
• Asian social science
• Kaizen practices
• Vietnamese manufacturing companies
• Renovation policy economy
• Market oriented economy
• Knowledge sharing
• Explicit knowledge
• Tacit knowledge
• Service quality
• Retail industry
• Automobile industry
• Data envelopment analysis
• Vietnamese automobile firms
• Beverage enterprises
• Vietnamese food
• Accounting practices
• Multinomial logit model
• Interest rates
• Monetary policy
• Small and medium sized enterprises
• Lean management
• Lean implementing models
• Market segment selection
• Fuzzy QFD
• Fuzzy TOPSIS
• Non farm opportunities
• Economic growth a
• Value at Risk modelling
• Warsaw Stock Exchange
• Realized volatility
• Social feminist theory
• Liberal feminist theory
• Firm performance
• Rural credit
• Poverty reduction
• Poor household
• Northwest of Vietnam
• Developing countries
• Manufacturing sector
• Trade liberalization
• Export aversion
• Macro environment
• International business management
• Family business
• Convenience store chain
• Asymmetric volatility
• EGARCH model
• VAR model
• volatility spillovers
• Exchange rate variations
• Agricutural exports
• Agricutural market
• Behavioral economics
• Generation Y
• Facebook banking
• Retail banking services
• IT infrastructure
• Online trading system
• Input Output analysis
• Green banking
• Green financing
• SERVPERF model
• Customer satisfaction
• Gini decomposition
• Off farm income
• Ethnic minorities
• Northwest region
• Transitional economy
• Improve employee productivity
• Human resource management
• Environmental performance
• Pollution reduction
• Environmental management system
• Government environmental certificate