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Monday! Mar 07 2005 // 7:34 pm //

Tax incentives; WTO Export Dumping

American Farmland Trust Action Alert
The Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation has issued a report recommending changes to the tax code that, if adopted, would largely dismantle the federal tax incentives for agricultural and other conservation easements.

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Agriculture Export Dumping Booms during WTO’s First Decade
(pdf press release from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy)
Ten years after the enactment of the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture, U.S. food companies are still exporting crops at prices below their cost of production (dumping) onto world markets, concludes a new report by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.