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The WTO, Agribusiness, and the Third Food Regime
Wilhelm-Ross, Samuel ; Hrishabh, Sandilya (advisor) ; Bernard Thompson Mikes, Antonin (referee)
Food regime theory emerged in the 1980s as a tool to delineate the history of the modern food system. Scholars insist that we have arrived at the third and putative corporate food regime that is dominated by a select group of agribusiness corporations. The corporate food regime"s ascent to dominance will be presented here as a product of the realization of neoliberal trade policies at the urging of the World Trade Organization. Initially promising development to fledgling countries, the WTO"s forays into agriculture have amounted to nothing less than a catastrophe for the Global South. The hope that developing countries would be able to trade their way out of debt has long been abandoned, and the gap between the developed and developing world has only been further exacerbated as a result of trade liberalization. Worse yet, the WTO"s Agreement on Agriculture was intentionally littered with loopholes that allow Northern countries to egregiously subsidize crops that are then exported off to Southern markets at artificially low prices, crippling local producers in the process. Through examining import and export flows in the Global South since the trade agreement, this cruel feature of the modern food system will become evident as will the subsequent jump in agribusiness" profits amid the direst of...
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Dumping and Its Impact on International Trade
Holopová, Andrea
The effect of dumping and anti-dumping policy is often seen as more political than economic. Therefore the main aim of this thesis is to deeply specify the position of dumping on the fi eld of international trade, including all aspects of this phenomenon. This should answer the question if it is necessary to defend markets against dumping by the usage of anti-dumping duties or whether dumping should be a common element of free trade. This work includes an analysis of a practical case concerning shoe imports from China and Vietnam.
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Dumping practices of retailers
Ristovský, Tom ; Vostrovská, Zdenka (advisor) ; Zemplinerová, Alena (referee)
Bachelor thesis deals with dumping practices in the market of Czech breweries. The work is focused o the method of pricing used by detail chains in the country. The first part defines terms such as dumping, price discrimination, supply, demand, protection of competition, price elasticity and pricing. The second part show practical examples of creation of dumping prices and their consequent impact on the market. Examined market is beer in the Czech Republic and selected products for the analysis represent four best selling light draft beers - Gambrinus, Braník, Kozel and Staropramen. The thesis approaches consequences cause by dumping practices of retailers to suppliers -- irritation of direct distribution and subsequent difficulties with pricing. The third part deals with the analysis of the legislative framework of the issue within the Czech Republic and the European Union. The goal is to confirm or invalidate the hypothesi that the current institutional legal framework is sufficient to protect the market from dumping practices of retailers.
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