Johan Norberg rappelle les enjeux des négociations de Hong-Kong:
The countries have completely forgotten the point of multilateral negotiations, which is to get the help from foreigners to open our own markets. The biggest benefit from free trade is that it gives our consumers more choice and lower prices, and makes our economy more efficient by more competition and specialisation.
Total free trade in agriculture and abolished subsidies would save the OECD countries almost $760 million a day, and make it possible to use resources in sectors where we are more efficient, rather than using it to produce sugar three times as expensive as the sugar we could buy from others. And developing countries would also benefit the most from their own agricultural liberalisation – about 70-85 percent of the gain according to a recent FAO study.
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