Review of Federal Farm Policy: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 |
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... subsidies are eliminated , not only because they inhibit our ability to export to Europe , but be- cause they provide the Europeans with an unfair competitive ad- vantage in third markets such as the Middle East , India , and other ...
... subsidies are eliminated , not only because they inhibit our ability to export to Europe , but be- cause they provide the Europeans with an unfair competitive ad- vantage in third markets such as the Middle East , India , and other ...
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... subsidies paid to European Union member producers has occurred . According to the WTO for the marketing year 1996-97 , the European citrus industry received in excess of $ 1.2 billion to assist in the production and marketing of oranges ...
... subsidies paid to European Union member producers has occurred . According to the WTO for the marketing year 1996-97 , the European citrus industry received in excess of $ 1.2 billion to assist in the production and marketing of oranges ...
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... subsidies . We receive no trade distorting subsidies . Let's compare this situation with the fruit and vegetable industry in Europe . Taking a look at the most recent data available , we find that the EU's aggregate measure of support ...
... subsidies . We receive no trade distorting subsidies . Let's compare this situation with the fruit and vegetable industry in Europe . Taking a look at the most recent data available , we find that the EU's aggregate measure of support ...
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... subsidy programs from growing fresh fruit , vegetables , and nuts on acreage enrolled in these programs . This is necessary to ensure that producers of fruits and vegetables who do not receive subsidies are not put at a com- petitive ...
... subsidy programs from growing fresh fruit , vegetables , and nuts on acreage enrolled in these programs . This is necessary to ensure that producers of fruits and vegetables who do not receive subsidies are not put at a com- petitive ...
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... subsidies . It continued , despite commitments made by those countries in the Uruguay Round . We've been hurt , overall , in the last multilateral trade negotiations ; we're hopeful that free trade with China could be approved because ...
... subsidies . It continued , despite commitments made by those countries in the Uruguay Round . We've been hurt , overall , in the last multilateral trade negotiations ; we're hopeful that free trade with China could be approved because ...
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Page 1822 - You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
Page 1443 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Page 1509 - Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.
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Page 1426 - God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.
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