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Abstract
This article measures the degree of difficulty of compliance to technical
measures for firms that export food in Brazil, through the construction of indexes. It
has conducted a survey of 117 firms and data collected were analyzed by multivariate
analysis. The detailed variables in the article which represent types of technical
measures usually required in food export were grouped into two indices: Technical
Specification Index (TSI) and Requirements Information Index (RII). The Wilcoxon
test revealed that firms have greater difficulty to comply products and processes with
technical specifications such as plant and production process requirements, conformity assessment procedures, food safety, product’s characteristics and environmental
requirements.