Reassessing Our Import Policy
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Manggi Habir*
The recent reversal on the government's horticulture and meat import policy reflects the limitation of using import restrictions for protecting and developing local business capacity at the expense of price stability.
As recent reports on the meat import scandal have shown, consumers are saddled with sky-high meat prices while local farmers, the intended beneficiary, are more often left with just a small share of the higher price
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