International people protested that the United States passed the new agricultural law

Introduction: in the early May of this year, the United States House of Representatives and the house of Representatives passed the new agricultural bill Its core content is to expand the U.S government's protection of agriculture, especially to greatly increase subsidies for agriculture President Bush has also said he will sign the bill The coming of the new agricultural law of the United States has aroused strong opposition from the international community At the same time, people have deep doubts and concerns about the trend of the agricultural and trade policies of the United States Agricultural subsidies have been one of the most controversial issues in world trade, and also the biggest obstacle for developing countries to expand agricultural exports It is natural for the United States to substantially increase its subsidies to agriculture to arouse opposition from all over the world However, for the criticism from the international community, some members of the U.S House of representatives said that the U.S agricultural law is formulated for American farmers, not for Mexican farmers, nor for European and Canadian farmers The implication seems to be that American agricultural law has nothing to do with other countries However, people with a little common sense know that with the rapid development of the trend of economic globalization, the markets of various countries are more and more closely linked, and the economic laws of major economic powers have more and more influence on the world market It is also seen that in fiscal year 2001, the export of agricultural products in the United States reached 53.5 billion US dollars In terms of the share of the world market, wheat export accounts for 45% of the world market, and soybean export accounts for 34% The United States has greatly increased the already huge agricultural subsidies, which can only shut out more products of developing countries, and at the same time, make the products of developing countries in the world market more disadvantaged The coming of the new agricultural law of the United States also means that the Bush administration has stepped back from the position of free trade which was strongly advocated At the Doha Conference of the WTO in November last year, delegates from all over the world stayed up all night, bargaining fiercely, and finally decided to launch a new round of multilateral trade negotiations The difficulty is fresh in people's memory One of the important reasons why the new round of Global trade negotiations can be launched is the commitment of the United States to gradually reduce agricultural subsidies But in a few months, the United States will introduce a new agricultural law with increasing agricultural subsidies as the main content The credibility of the US commitment in this regard is questionable As Canada's agriculture minister van Clive recently pointed out, increasing agricultural subsidies will "severely damage" the credibility of the United States in the new round of Global trade negotiations At the same time, many people worry that the new American agricultural law will cast another shadow on the prospects of Global trade negotiations It is also found that when the American media reports on issues related to agricultural law, it is very natural to add the words "election year", such as "the Senate passes the bill to increase agricultural subsidies in the election year", etc Why? As we all know, this is the year of mid-term elections in the United States, with one third of senators to be re elected and all members of the house of representatives to be re elected According to the analysis of American newspapers, in several important agricultural states in the Midwest and the south, the competition between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party will be extremely fierce this autumn, and they are even at the moment As some media have pointed out, the political meaning of the new agriculture bill is "huge" Further afield, Americans remember that Bush had won valuable votes in these states in the last presidential election Therefore, the new agricultural law will also play an important role in the next presidential election in more than two years.