the findings emerging from this work also assess the various conditioning factors in price transmission in particular the fact that nontariff 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 s there the transmission of world to domestic prices went from being nonexistent to near in years following structural adjustment reforms baffes and gardner but such clear cut examples are the exception