New US farm policy punishes Latinamerica

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The effects of the new United States 2002 farm policy will have a negative impact for Latinamerican exports, according to a report from the United Nations Economic Committer for Latinamerica and the Caribbean, Cepal with main offices in Santiago.

However the report indicates that the consequences for Latinamerican exporters and farmers will vary according to the countries.

Sugar, citrus, orange juice, grapefruit, lemons, apples, vegetables, cotton and tobacco “now have less chances of a greater access to the US market”, underlines the report, adding that the spirit and letter of the bill is definitively protectionist, very distant from official international US policy on trade liberalization.

The bill was drafted to “strengthen the productive capacity of American agriculture and respond to pressures from traditional farmers’ caucuses and on the other hand to change the rules of the game that preside over multilateral agriculture”.

http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=3083

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1. Latin america will now grow their own...US farmers fail.

How lovely of our wonderful WH.