Nice post by Harvard’s Jeff Frankel on the little-followed but surprisingly important issue of export control on food crops. The United States hasn’t tried to contain food prices by embargoing exports since Richard Nixon briefly stopped foreign sales of soybeans and set in motion the rise …
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By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Argentina, Brazil, export controls, Jeffrey Frankel, Richard Nixon, soybeans | Category: International Trade, Quick Takes |
 Leave a commentThe Competitive Enterprise Institute goes off the rails occasionally (as in “what climate change?”…), but the organization is right on the mark on the issue of import quotas for sugar. American cane and sugar beet growers, it seems, have lost a bit of their … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Agriculture Department, Brazil, Competitive Enterprise Institute, India, Mexico, sugar quotas, Thailand | Category: International Trade, Quick Takes |
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