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The current generalised system of preferences (GSP) is based on a way of thinking that embodies a contradiction: the idea that development can be promoted through the liberalisation of international trade – a model that promotes exports and is regulated at world level, with a ‘centre’ and a ‘periphery’.
That way of thinking runs counter to fair international relations and to aid aimed at developing endogenous factors in the least economically developed countries. Without such factors, and trapped between the robbery that is external debt and the imposed interests of the major US, EU and Japanese multinationals, those countries will continue to have a peripheral and subordinate status.
Trade is one component of development, but it is far from being the most important.
The GSP guarantees preferential access for products from about 178 countries. The current proposal brings forward the scheme’s entry into force and opens up the GSP to particularly sensitive products for Portugal (tuna preserves, tomato concentrate, textiles and clothing).
Textiles and clothing are particularly badly affected, especially because there is a high graduation threshold for the sector. That and other adverse aspects need to be reversed; otherwise there will be serious consequences for the country’s manufacturing sector, with the social and economic fallout that will result from that."@en1
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