[lbo-talk] RE: IFG Statement from WTO Cancun

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Fri Sep 12 17:27:41 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "boddhisatva" <boddhisatva at netzero.net>


> "4) Best of All: Agriculture Should be Removed from the WTO."
>
> -Fine if the overall effect would actually be to undermine 1st world
> agricultural subsidies. I don't care a damn for the WTO, but come up with a
> better organ for coordinating trade policy. If not the WTO, who is going to
> outlaw subsidies and how will that policy be enforced?
>
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If the WTO can't even stop the simple dynamic of "protection for sale" -the commodification of legislation- by national governments then what is it good for?

Ian



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