The European Community's Common Agricultural Policy: Continued Problems for the U.S.

Publication Date: December 1990

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Ewen M. Wilson

Research Area: Agriculture, forestry and fishing

Keywords: Agriculture

Type: Report

Abstract:

At a time when former communist countries as well as other less developed countries are attempting to reform their own economic systems, the CAP stands in the way of a free and unsubsidized flow of agricultural goods. West European concerns of the past about food security are no longer relevant since they now produce far more food than they need. But the surplus agricultural products which the EC dumps on the world market have become a global issue of great concern to all agricultural producing nations. So long as the EC persists with its costly and economically irrational agricultural policy, U.S. policy makers must continue pushing for reform.