Farmers face serious, inescapable and fundamental disadvantages which no other sellers are asked to contend with in quite the same way, argues veteran international trade negotiator Colin Teese.In a speech he delivered earlier this year before 500 delegates to an Australian beef industry conference, he defended government subsidies to farmers, and warned of the disadvantages farmers are likely to face from bilateral trade agreements, such as the recent so-called free-trade agreement with th…
