Standards and trade performance: The UK experience

Economic Journal

Volumn 106, Issue 438, 1996, Pages 1297-1313

  Swann, Peter ^a   Temple, Paul ^a   Shurmer, Mark ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATIONAL TRADE; STANDARDS IMPACT; TRADE PERFORMANCE; TRADING STANDARDS;

UK;

EID: 0030430407     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2235522     Document Type: Article

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