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How is Spain making pork cheap enough to not only export to China but to dump it?
WTF IS GOING ON lol
All of them are subsidized heavily and very entitled to that and to polluting freely.
https://agridata.ec.europa.eu/extensions/DataPortal/pigmeat.html
If it’s anything like what happens in the US they’re dumping “excess” production to keep prices artificially high.
Accord8ng to what I got from the aeticle, by dumping they mean mass exports.
That's correct. Dumping is a trade practice when selling priced under COGS, generally to drive competition out of business but there are various reasons.