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United States of America: Department of Agriculture purchases surplus cheese to stock food banks and to assist dairy producers

Announcement

23 Aug 2016

A 1935 law authorizes the U.S. government to support commodity prices by purchasing surplus goods.

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1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

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Implementation date

23 Aug 2016

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Updated: 23 Aug 2016
Public procurement, nes In force

On August 23, 2016 the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced plans to purchase approximately 11 million pounds of cheese from private inventories, valued at $20 million. The cheese will then be ...

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