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| Iraq |
| Iraq no longer buying US rice |
| 2012-02-24 |
| Posted by:Dar |
| #4 Apparently they believe we are attempting to corrupt their bodily fluids. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-02-24 16:15 |
| #3 Rice is a fungible commodity, it will sell just fine on the open market. There is not a glut of unused food in this world, rice is easy enough to sell on the open market. Still, it is a pain to lose a steady customer and have to hock your goods on the world wide marketplace. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2012-02-24 13:22 |
| #2 Rice is a commodity that is restricted just about everywhere in the world. Production quotas, tariffs, bans, price fixing, etc. In such a rigid market, any change will strongly rock the boat. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-24 08:13 |
| #1 "If we've got some rice to sell, they ought to pay a premium for it just because this is the country that freed them." That sounds like democratic values and ideas. We invaded you to make you a free democracy of sorts (probably a failed experiment), but forget capitalism and the free market. I think maybe the rice business is not such a good idea when your competition is, well, all of Asia. Might be time to diversify a little. |
| Posted by: jefe101 2012-02-24 02:11 |