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Published: 01/10/2002 Author: Centre for International Economics Source: Centre for International Economics Origin: Australia Abstract: Protection is a major problem in sugar trade. The world sugar market has long been recognised as one distorted global commodity markets.
Protection is a major problem in sugar trade. The world sugar market has long been recognised as one distorted global commodity markets.
It is the disruptive policies of the European Union (EU),
States (US) and Japan that cause most of these distortions.
Policies offer very high rates of protection to domestic by imposing severe import restrictions and by providing measures such as export subsidies or production quotas to help raise domestic prices above the world price.
