Bars on Third World Farm Imports Hit
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WASHINGTON — The outgoing head of the World Bank sharply criticized the United States and Western Europe on Friday for holding down imports of farm products from poor countries.
“Hardly a day goes by without new calls in the industrial countries for more restrictions on these developing country commodities,” A. W. Clausen said.
“It is true of the United States, the biggest agricultural exporter in the world,” Clausen said. “It is true of the European Economic Community, whose price supports and import controls greatly harm the interests of agricultural commodity exporters of the Third World, not to mention the interests of consumers of all nations.”
Clausen, a former commercial banker, will be succeeded in June by Barber Conable, a former Republican congressman from New York.
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