Friday, October 28, 2005

S.Korea - revolting farmers

The EU isn't the only place that's unwilling to open it's agricultural markets, S.Korea is also not keen to increase it's rice imports, even though rice from China would be very much cheaper. Under WTO rules not abiding by an agreement to increase imports by the end of this year would allow rice exporting countries to take action. Farmers and left wing politicians are outraged at the idea and are willing to get physical over the passing of such legislation more from the Joong Ang Daily... Some commentators have pointed out that since S.Korea lives by trade it'll be impossible to block such a move without ruining their own export industries more from the Korea Times...

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