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The sugar protocol: an appraisal

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Intereconomics

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A key issue in the talks on the fourth Lomé Convention is the demand of some Caribbean and Central American nations to join the ACP group, so as to benefit from the preferential treatment and financing facilities it enjoys. A specific concern is accession to the Sugar Protocol appended to the Lomé Agreement. The following article deals with the form and developmental implications of this protocol.

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  1. On the CSA see inter alia A. Grissa: Structure of the International Sugar Market and Its Impact on Developing Countries, Paris 1976, pp. 24–30.

  2. see Bulletinof the EC, NO. 5, 1988, p. 81.

  3. The quota cuts affected Uganda, Surinam and the People’s Republic of the Congo. See R. Hasse, R. Weitz: Das Abkommen von Lomé—Übergang oder Alternative zu einer neuen Weltwirtschaftsordnung?, Cologne 1977, p. 106.

  4. see F.O. Licht: Europäisches Zuckerjournal, Ratzeburg 1989, p. 231 f.

  5. Cf. Handelsblatt and Neue Zürcher Zeitung, both of 17.3.88.

  6. See Bulletin of the EC, No. 10, 1988, p. 78 f.

  7. According to Imfeld, even the plantations in Tanzania, Kenya, Swaziland, Jamaica and Belize are owned by Tate & Lyle. Cf. A. Imfeld: Zucker, 3rd ed., Zurich 1986, p. 174.

  8. Cf. P. M. Schmitz, U. Koester: Der Einfluß der EG-Zuckerpolitik auf die Entwicklungsländer, discussion paper No. 42, Institut für Agrarpolitik und Marktlehre der Universität Kiel, June 1981.

  9. Cf. S. Harris: Current issues in the world sugar economy, in: Food Policy, May 1987, p. 136; and F. Zeller: Konkurrenzsituation auf dem Weltzuckermarkt, doctoral thesis, Kiel 1988, p. 123.

  10. Cf. J. G. Brown: The international sugar industry. Developments and Prospects, in: World Bank Staff Commodity Working Papers No. 18, Washington D.C. 1987, pp. 46–52.

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Koch, T. The sugar protocol: an appraisal. Intereconomics 24, 293–297 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02924737

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