How Rich Countries Are Getting a Free Ride on Agricultural Subsidies at the WTO
- Publisher:
- Oxfam International
- Publication Date:
- 16 June 2005
- Tags:
- Africa, Europe and Africa, United States, Canada and Africa, Asia, Australia, and Africa, Food and Agriculture, Trade, Economy, Business and Finance
Agricultural dumping has a devastating effect on poor countries. The Uruguay Round at the WTO was supposed to cut the subsidies that lead to dumping, but it failed to do so — as did reforms of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy and US agricultural policy. Now history is set to repeat itself: the Doha Round of negotiations is again giving rich countries a free ride to continue dumping subsidised produce on poor countries. Oxfam believes that the WTO meeting in Hong Kong must put an end to this hugely damaging practice.