About protection of farmer interests and domestic market
1999
Kalnins, A. (Saeima (Parliament) of the Republic of Latvia, Riga (Latvia))
The unfavourable trend is increasing in Latvian agriculture during the last years: the imports of agricultural production exceed exports, but in the 1998 imports were almost two times bigger than year exports. It is a result of cheep imports from countries where farmer production is supported by state subsidies. Taking into account the current situationn the following domestic market protection mechanisms could be applied: to set antidumping and antisubsidies tariffs on imported food stuffs, custom tariffs, import quotas, to apply strict quality and hygiene requirements on imported food.
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