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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: Bush's next Tricks of Trade ?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.040900.11187@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:09:00 GMT
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- ...From PeaceNet's trade.news via misc.activism.progressive...
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- "The Administration hopes that in addition to good publicity the
- EEP expenditures [entire $1 billion allocated for the next fiscal
- year to be spent all during October] will "empty the bins" enough
- to create temporary shortages which will drive up cash farm prices
- during the fall harvest, immediately before the election."
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- TRADE NEWS BULLETIN (trade.news)
- Tuesday, July 21, 1992
- _________________________________________________________
- GATT News Summary
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- RUMORS IN DC ABOUT BUSH ELECTION TRADE STRATEGY
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- Now that Ross Perot has dropped out of the U.S. presidential
- race, sources say President George Bush will embark on a series
- of political moves on international trade.
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- Rumored actions include:
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- 1. Plans to to retaliate against the EC over disagreements
- surrounding U.S. corn gluten feed shipments to Europe.
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- 2. Plans by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to spend the $1
- billion of Export Enhancement Program (EEP) funds in October,
- one month before the elections. The funds were authorized in
- the Budget Act, and had been set to cover the entire fiscal year
- beginning in October of this year.
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- 3. The Administration hopes that in addition to good publicity
- the EEP expenditures will "empty the bins" enough to create
- temporary shortages which will drive up cash farm prices
- during the fall harvest, immediately before the election.
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- 4. Sources close to the Administration claim the GATT talks will
- be put off until next year, and that they will propose a two year
- extension of the Multi-Fibre Agreement (MFA). The extension
- of MFA goes well beyond the expiration of the fast-track
- authority, which expires in June 1993.
- _________________________________________________________
- Produced by:
- Kai Mander
- The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
- 1313 Fifth Street SE, Suite #303
- Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 USA
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- Telephone:(612)379-5980 Fax:(612)379-5982
- E-Mail:kmander@igc.org
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