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The agricultural trade issue in the Uruguay Round highlights the trend towards fragmentation among LDCs: the fundamental underlying differences between the interests of agricultural exporters and food importers are hard to reconcile. These differences are analysed in the following article.
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See, for example, Sada Shankar Saxena: The Uruguay Round: Expectations of Developing Countries, in: INTERECONOMICS, Vol. 23, No. 6, November/December 1988, pp. 268–77.
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Cooper, A.F. Exporters versus importers: LDCs, agricultural trade, and the Uruguay Round. Intereconomics 25, 13–17 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02924754
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