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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This paper examines the impact of two European Union (<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EU</jats:styled-content>) market access regulations in the food sector presumed to simultaneously affect firms’ decisions to export food products to the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EU</jats:styled-content>. We analysed <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EU</jats:styled-content> pesticide standards on African exports alongside a complementary non‐tariff measure in the form of a minimum entry price regulation, which aims to protect <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EU</jats:styled-content> growers of certain fruits and vegetables against international competition. Analysis was based on Africa's exports of tomatoes, oranges, and lime and lemon to the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EU</jats:styled-content> between 2008 and 2013, using the gravity model of trade. Our results show that <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EU</jats:styled-content> market access conditions constitute significant barrier to the formation of new trade relation between the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EU</jats:styled-content> and Africa. In addition, initiation of trade relationships is contingent not only on market access conditions but also on domestic market constraints in Africa. These results imply that negotiating preferential entry prices duties and the removal of domestic market restraints as well as strengthening domestic capacity to comply with <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EU</jats:styled-content> standards to enhance continuous market access for the continent could stimulate food trade along the extensive margin.</jats:p>