The United States is a dominant world producer of almonds and is the dominant player in India's market, accounting for an 80-85 percent share. However, U.S. almond imports to India face high tariffs and non-tariff barriers which diminish the full potential of export volume for U.S. almonds. This...

This study provides a framework for describing the profiles of consumers who are more likely to use nutrition labels and to pay attention to serving-size information. Inan online survey, food consumers were asked about the importance of nutrition labels and how often they read the serving-size...

The authors found that food retailers would incur sizeable incremental costs depending on the mix of labor and capital utilized if a dual tax structure was imposed. Thus, the tax savings to consumers then would be offset not only by the recoupment of the lost revenue by government, but also by...