摘要：This paper develops a method to examine data on fresh produce imports from Latin America andthe Caribbean into the United States from 1993-1999 to determine: 1) if there are significantdifferences in frequency of interceptions for a specific product for the region or a specificcountry within the region, and 2) whether significant changes in trade flows for specific productshave occurred between points of origin and ports of entry. The results show that there are indeeddifferences between countries with respect to interception frequency, however current data onthe fumigation frequency for a commodity/country or commodity/port of entry is not sufficientto determine the causes that underlie differences in frequencies between countries.
