Dumping Policy & Its Impact In The Development of Agricultural Production In Iraq (2003- 2009)

Abstract

Dumping policy considered as one of the policies occurs severe damages to the developing countries apparently this is happens due to the potential weakness in (productive, technical, legislative, legal institutions) comparing with other developed countries who are members in WTO.

Iraq consider as one of the developing countries that has been effected by the dumping policy, the events in Iraq since downfall of the formal regime, and the allied forces domination of Iraq have all together accelerated in the apace of deterioration , particularly , after the temporary coalition authority  has forced Iraq to adopt a free foreign trade policy& exclusion of the state from the market mechanism & to consolidate import and deactivated the institution work such as the (costume ,economic security, a standardization and quality control ) institutions and the pervasive destruction of infrastructures  , which helped the goods from the industrialized countries to invade the local market, particularly as those goods are originally highly competitive  and  led to destroy the local goods . Moreover, these goods consider as a low quality goods.

Although the market activity was dominated by the state before 2003 has been transferred to exposed market

The implication of dumping policy has hugely effected the agriculture sector in Iraq therefore the problems will be addressed in this research to overcome this problem and highlighted some important suggestions