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Unfair trade rules may start to tumble after a landmark
ruling by the WTO stating that US cotton dumping is illegal
and must be stopped.
- Every acre of cotton farmland in the US receives a subsidy
of $230
- In 2001 that led to a subsidy of $3.9bn - more than the
entire GDP of Burkina Faso
- In the same year sub-Saharan exporters lost $302m as a
direct consequence of US cotton subsidies
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) now states that
the majority of the subsidies the US pay their sugar and cotton
farmers are illegal.
Email George
Bush now and demand he accepts the ruling. |