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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (184051)3/10/2004 1:02:49 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1575761
 
We can't cut export subsidies if we don't have them. The fact that we are thinking about cutting or eliminating them is however a good thing.

U.S.: Cut farm goods export subsidies
By James Cox, USA TODAY
The United States on Monday proposed elimination of all export subsidies on farm goods in a bid to restart stalled talks on a global free-trade deal.

usatoday.com

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Western Farmers Fear Third-World Challenge to Subsidies
By ELIZABETH BECKER

"...The world's wealthiest nations give more than $300 billion of subsidies to their farmers every year, more than the gross national product of sub-Saharan Africa. Those payments are now the biggest complaint of poor nations.

"It's ridiculous that rich farmers are getting richer and poor farmers are getting poorer," said John Nagenda, a farmer in Uganda and adviser to President Yoweri Museveni. "We are kept out of the world market. When countries like America, Britain and France subsidize their farmers, we get hurt."

Siphiwe Mkhize, agriculture attaché at the South African Embassy in Washington, said: "We would give up foreign aid if the farm subsidies were eliminated. The subsidies give the rich-nation farmers the upper hand in all markets, and we can't even compete in our own markets, much less theirs."..."

artsci.wustl.edu
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