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Trade Liberalisation

Together with the reduction of any support provided to farmers from their governments, Subsidized goods have flooded in and farmers have found themselves unable to sell their products even in local markets.
             Case Study: Sugar leaves a bitter taste in the majority World.
             Sugar Cane is one of the vital crops for millions of farmers throughout the developing world. In the Philippines free trade agreements with the US meant that colonial patterns of production for exports were maintained even after the country's Independence. The US gave guarantees of large sugar quotas to Philippines encouraging expansions of sugar plantations throughout the country.
             Sugar is now the 4th most important crop in the Philippines being a major export. In 1997,there was a total of 208,618 sugar farms in the country alone.
             Before they signed to the GATT, they were very protective of the Sugar cane Industry. They levied high import taxes on sugar coming into the Philippines and set maximum quotas on the amount that could be imported. Since 1994 the Philippines has faithfully implemented it's commitments under the GATT that resulted in the government reducing tariffs on imported sugar.
             Now the government has liberalized trade and allowed the import of more sugar. This strategy had a vision of achieving food security through more International trade. But sudden low cost sugar Imports has had a heavy price. Most farmers are small. Half are below 5 hectares and run mostly by tenant farmers. The sugar sector in the Philippines is in a weak position to compete with low cost imports as locally produced sugar costs more than double the world market price.
             Trade liberalization is riddled with hypocrisy! .
             Governments in the US and Europe profess faith in the principles of Free Trade but when it comes to agriculture there is a wide gulf between principle and practice. For decades the US and EU have been restricting Agricultural imports subsidizing their agricultural producers and dumping highly subsidized surpluses on world markets- all in defiance of the stated principle of creating a "level playing field-.


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