the test identified a break in total wheat imports and per capita wheat imports in and respectively while and emerge as the most significant breakyears for total rice imports and per capita rice imports respectively these years correspond to significant policy shifts in senegal starting with the devaluation of the local currency the cfa franc in policy measures adopted included a full liberalisation of import in rice trade was highly regulated by the state and imports were subject to quotas until and the implementation of the regional common exterior thriff cet in leading to a drop in rice import tariff from to