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44 THE RURAL VOICE
NEWS
U.S. GATT PLAN
WILL FAIL: STUDY
U.S. President Ronald Reagan's
plan to eliminate agricultural subsidies
affecting international trade by the next
century is doomed, according to a re-
cently released study.
The 157 -page study, titled Agricul-
ture and the GATT: Rewriting the
Rules, says that "Producers in a number
of countries know they would not be
competitive in world markets (under
free trade). In some other cases, being
competitive would require a substantial
decline in land prices, which present
landowners would oppose."
The Reagan administration has al-
ready tabled its proposals at the GATT
(General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade) talks in Geneva. Nations have
agreed that multi -billion dollar subsidy
programs have crippled government
budgets worldwide and seriously dis-
rupted traditional trading patterns.
Canada has welcomed the U.S. pro-
posals, but will not table its initial pro-
posals until the end of October.
In analyzing the farm trade situation,
the report, written by former U.S. agri-
culture undersecretary Dale Hathaway,
says there are three choices: free trade,
government -managed trade through
commodity or marketing agreements to
share exports, or a compromise between
the two.
Hathaway recommends a compro-
mise allowing governments to keep sub-
sidies on produce used in the home mar-
ket but restricting subsidies on exports.
GATT negotiators have committed
themselves to getting some preliminary
results by the end of next year, but the
talks are expected to last until at least
1991.0
FARM AID RAISES
$3.3 MILLION
More than $2 million of the $3.3
million in gross revenue from last
month's Farm Aid III concert in the U.S.
will go to help farmers, say Farm Aid
organizers, and the publicity for the
plight of farmers has been effective.
About $1 million will be used to pay
the costs of staging the concert.0