The findings emerging from this work also assess the various conditioning factors in price transmission, in particular the fact that non-tariff trade barriers, domestic policy and lack of domestic infrastructure can significantly obstruct the transmission of international price fluctuations. One often cited example is that of maize in Egypt, a country that underwent significant agricultural liberalisation measures in the late 1980s.15 There, the transmission of world to domestic prices went from being non-existent to near 100% in years following structural adjustment reforms (Baffes and Gardner). But such clear cut examples are the exception.