In today’s society, it is a common belief that the agricultural tariffs, or special levies on imported food, should safeguard the agriculturists within a nation, while others argue that such schemes are needless and do not have to apply. However, in this essay I will discuss both views of these policies and give my own opinion.
Amittedly, it has been acknowledged that the more taxes have been applied for foods came from overseas, the more expensive it has been. As a result, these duties will assert the locally produce commodities’s position in comparison with imported ones, which means that the much more sales of domestically agricultural goods and the popularity of these than that before. Another reason why agricultural tariffs is crucial is that with an excessive amount of expenditure that the government can achieve from foreign foods could be paid for the improvement of some facilities, such as the road infrastructures and even the irrigation system , or some cooperative programs with local authorities. Therefore, with the unwavering support of the government and the better facilities, the standard quality of local products will be enhanced by far, making it more credictability in the market.
On the other hands, the critics argue that with these agricultural tariffs, the national cultivaters and breeders will become more and more dependent on the government since the national produced foodstuffs do not have to be confronted with the rivalry from imported commodities in term of prices , showcasing no sign of the determination of the product’s development and the unstandard solving-problem skills in some emergency situation. Conquesencally, the domestic commodities could lose the share in not only the national market but also the international ones and even damage the economy of the country in the long term. For instance, many developed countries like America and Canada have eliminated a variety of duties on imported food.
To sum up, while the agricultural taxes could allow the domestic goods to take the huge portion of the nationally market volume and pay for the expenditure spent on the development of some related facilities, these duties also have a detrimental impact on not just only the product’s quality itself but also the economy of one’s country, which are too risky be applied.