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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8868

18 January 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
World Bank criticises preferential agreements and quota systems for sugar

Brussels, 17/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - A World Bank Report published on 10 January, "Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries", explains that European, US and Japanese producers are getting paid three times more than the average on the world markets, thanks to protectionist mechanisms set up by the governments of these industrialised countries. The report criticised the fact that these countries pay their sugar producers the equivalent of that paid to all of the other developing...

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