Impact of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on price, import and sale volumes in an island: interrupted time series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the impact of changes in import tariffs on sweetened beverages.

Design

Interrupted time series analysis was used to examine sweetened beverage tariff increases of 40-60 % in 2008 and to 75 % in 2012, and an approximately 11 % decrease in 2014 when an excise tax replaced the tariff. Post-tax trends were compared with a counterfactual modelled on the pre-tax trend for: quarterly price of an indicator beverage, monthly beverage import volumes (both 2001-2017) and quarterly sales volumes (2012-2017). In a controlled analysis, taxed beverage imports were compared with a sugary snacks control.

Setting

Cook Islands.

Participants

NA.

Results

In the first year, after the 2008 tariff increase the price of the selected indicator soft drink inc

SUBMITTER: Teng AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195599 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature