SA land redistribution may fall foul of WTO deal August 17, 2004
The government's land redistribution programme could fall foul of recent agreements at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by western countries to cut the subsidies they paid to their farmers and scrap trade-distorting practices, Canadian finance minister Ralph Goodale warned yesterday.
South Africa and other African countries have lobbied hard for western nations to scrap the subsidies because they push down the prices of agricultural products and undercut their own products.
But Goodale warned that the concessions, could "unexpectedly bite" the very people who had demanded them.
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