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Everything But Arms (EBA) and the EU-sugar market reform - development gift or Trojan Horse?
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Abstract "The EBA-Initative of 2001 has made three notable exceptions to its commitment for tariff and quota free access of least development countries (LDCs) to the EU-market: Sugar, bananas, and rice, for which longer transitions periods have been imposed. Despite the decelerated opening of the EU market f... view more
"The EBA-Initative of 2001 has made three notable exceptions to its commitment for tariff and quota free access of least development countries (LDCs) to the EU-market: Sugar, bananas, and rice, for which longer transitions periods have been imposed. Despite the decelerated opening of the EU market for EBA sugar, it is precisely sugar that presently constitutes the highest preferential value for LCDs, at least in the short and medium term and given the present high EU sugar price of more than 600 Euros per ton under the current Sugar Markt Order (SMO), which is more than triple the world market price. The EU itself projected that the EBA exports would attain 3.3 million tons per year in 2013 at a value of almost 2 billion Euros." (excerpt)... view less
Keywords
EU; African-Caribbean-Pacific countries; EU policy; development policy; foreign trade; Africa; development aid; world market; protectionism; developing country
Classification
Economic Sectors
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Political Economy
Method
descriptive study
Free Keywords
Zuckerindustrie
Document language
English
Publication Year
2006
City
Bonn
Page/Pages
23 p.
Series
DIE Discussion Paper, 10/2006
ISBN
978-3-88985-315-8
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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