Although the United States was not opposed, its allies jumped out, countries like Australia, Singapore, Canada expressed opposition.
They argued that Russia had been heavily subsidizing its domestic agriculture, creating unfair competition. If Russia wanted to join the WTO, it must eliminate its domestic agricultural subsidies, fully marketize them, and allow foreign companies to enter the Russian agricultural market…
Seeing this, Wang Ye furrowed his brows.
He was well aware of the state of domestic agriculture because he had personally driven the subsidy efforts.
The problem was, Russian agriculture was just getting started and was not yet significantly exported abroad. It merely satisfied the domestic market and supplied a small amount to a few neighboring ally countries. So why were countries like Australia, Singapore, Canada, focusing so intently on this issue?
Initially, Russia's agriculture had no competitive relationship with theirs.
