CardSharp
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US government provides huge subsidies to its farmers and uses its status in the IMF to pressure countries like Jamaica to buy its products when borrowing money. Do you know that powdered milk imported from the US is sold cheaper then locally produced Jamaican milk (what do you think happens to their industry)? How about the US sanctions on countries till the extend where their basic day to day living gets effected? FYI US does unfair practices to other countries using different tactics, so please spare us the morality preaching.
Besides the US is to blame for making China the manufacturing giant it is today, if you feel so strongly about it please stop visiting Wal Mart on your next shopping trip.
Oh the lengthy paragraphs I can write on the evils of the IMF.
Joseph Stiglitz also describes how America benefited from free trade by forcing open unindustrialized markets to finished good while making it impossible for them to export their agricultural goods to the US.