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TPP’s Sugar Shuffle and the Problems of Trade Diversion

By K. William Watson, Cato Institute Sep 15, 2015

As delegations finally start tackling the trickiest issues left in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, we’re getting to see the ugly consequences of trade diversion, which happens when governments liberalize trade from some countries but not all of them.  I wrote last month about Canada and Mexico’s opposition to liberal rules of origin for automobiles in the TPP because it would reduce the advantages they enjoy under NAFTA.  Now a group representing sugar growers in countries outside the TPP is protesting a proposal that would give Australia more access to the U.S. sugar market.

The federal government helps U.S. sugar growers through a complex scheme of subsidies, restrictions, and import quotas that keep the price of sugar high in the United States.  Rather than reform this baldly protectionist system, a move that would benefit almost everyone, the United States is most likely just going to give Australia a larger share of the quota.  The hope is that such an offer will be adequate to satisfy Australia’s demands in the TPP negotiations without upsetting the politically powerful U.S. sugar industry.

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