Banana War

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I have found this argument interesting because it is important to introduce to the public, the serious situation in which they are forced to work as workers of the third world. With this, I want to denounce the serious violations of the rights of the workers working in multinationals, that produce and commercialize bananas all over the world. With their methods, the multinationals not only undermine the health of who works in their extended plantations, but also they threaten the health of the consumers of the first world.

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[...] These two imperialist poles predatory, everyone with the own advantages and disadvantages, are meet to you in this war of bananas. The war essentially of economic nature was concentrated on the ability to these powers to exercise the own protection of mafia style on own the former colonies. The European solution has not been considered satisfactory The jury of the WTO, newly called to redeem the issue, with sentence of the 9 opens them 1999 gives to reason to the thesis American, succeeding to force the EU to change just the regulations on the commerce of bananas in less protectionistic sense. [...]

[...] THE REASONS OF THE DISPUTE The strong contrasts between USA and UE in the commercialization of the banana began since 1975, with the so-called "Convention of Lomé in which the European Union it established, underwriting the protocol number than bananas produced in the 42 countries members of Acp (Africa, Caribbeans and Pacific) would have had a privileged access to the European market, lowering the import taxes and placing one series of facilities. In this seat series of quotas and untaxations were elaborated all one in order to favour the former European colonies. This treaty was, later on, dawned with the "Treaty of Cotonou (Benin)". With these agreements it trades them the banana exports from Africa to the UE are passages from the 300,000 tons of 1993 to the 500,000 of 2002. [...]

[...] On 53 Africans countries produce, but only 16 export bananas in Europe. With the increase of the UE also to the countries of the former Soviet block, the demand for bananas from part of the UE is increased and new markets have been opened. The USA multinationals of bananas have been looked at cut outside from an enormous slice of market, moreover they never had appreciated the alternative that agreements EU and the ACP proposed the European consumer. THE AMERICAN ANSWER The European directive triggers the protests of the great multinationals (Chiquita, Of Monte and Dole, alone controls more of 50% of the world-wide market). [...]

[...] The production of Ecuador, Coast Rica and Colombia and, in the last years, also that one of Brazil, ends in the USA, Australia, Canada and European Union that one of Cameroon in the EU; that one of the Philippines is absorbed from Japan and the same China, than until today it does not succeed to satisfy the inner question, although its remarkable production. Thus the Three Great American multinationals form a oligopoly that controls the banana refueling, fixed the prices (do not exist a world-wide price) and have one excessive love for the secrecy. It is necessary to remember that the banana from "dollars": it represents 80% of the fruits it eats you to the North and is controlled from three companies. [...]

[...] To know the mechanisms of the capitalistic exploitation in the banana boats of the Latin America, creed is important in order to understand the conflict understood them job. Aware that is not with the fair trade and loyal that transforms society and that not is not even fighting from inside rules of market capitalist that can subvert, in how much already fact to call market, even if respectful of rules humanitarian, presupposes always someone that it produces and other that becomes rich with the sale of the product, I think important to make to know to world this problematic, above all for reason, because the acquaintance of the level of exploitation supplies us to which it is reached new world-wide Capitalism, in those countries where until never rules have today not existed and straight trade-union it adapts you to the productive truths. [...]