By pushing a binding food security clause to the WTO the NGO's want to guard self reliance in agricultural production and put an end to overproduction and its subsidization. Further this is seen as an end to subsidizing exports of overproduction flooded into the South. A developmental struggle is being solved with tools and rules of trade orgin. It is prohibiting the poorer from gaining some of the wealth originating from the tendencies related to globalisation. Trade rules are applied similarily to Taiwan and St. Vincent.
Disaggregated figures show how trade rules have been managed.
The EU market share of ACP products has fallen, the only rises appear in imports of new products such as exotic fruits and tropical fis to Britain, France and Belgium. The EU, USA and Japan use WTO with the ultimate aim of rules most beneficial for themselves, he continues. If the use of tariffs is beneficial to them, they use them and make others reduce them. Food importers are the greatest losers. Greenidge is referring to the World Trade Organization negotiations and agriculture agreement.