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Article: BOLIVIA: SOY PRODUCERS, FEARING MARKET LOSS IN COLOMBIA AND PERU, PRESSURE GOVERNMENT FOR DEAL WITH U.S.
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- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- April 7, 2006
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Bolivian exporters and opposition figures have begun pressuring the government of President Evo Morales to set up a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the US, a negotiation that Morales says he will never join. Bolivian soy producers fear that they have lost out massively on the export market to key purchasers Colombia and Peru after the two countries signed the Andean Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) with the US in recent months (see NotiSur, 2006-01-13 and 2006-03-10). The treaty increases Colombia's and Peru's access to cheap, highly subsidized soybeans from the US, meaning that their purchases of Bolivian soy products are likely to drop drastically.
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