Who benefits from elimination of tariffs and subsidies?
Peter Gallagher points out that, "...it's been demonstrated many times that the biggest winners from the elimination of absurd levels of protection for products such as sugar, oilseeds, cheese, meat, rice and grains are the world's richest and most protectionist countries."
But, "Even poor countries that do not export agricultural products will benefit from the opening of access to markets such as the EU, Japan, Norway, Canada and the USA. Why? Because the effect of astronomically high tariffs in these countries is to depress world market prices and, evenutally, the prices received by farmers in every less protected market.":"Market access matters "
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