| Quote unquote: Alan Beattie on agricultural subsidies |
| Written by William Danzek | |
| Friday, 04 May 2007 | |
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"Four west African countries - Benin, Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad - that grow large amounts of cotton are hurt by the dumping of heavily subsidised American cotton on the world market. But most LDCs do not compete much with the products subsidised by Europe and the US, so such distortions are not quite the cause celebre that western NGO activism might suggest." - Alan Beattie, World Trade Editor, Financial Times
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