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To: tejek who wrote (185047)	4/2/2004 8:16:08 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1574772

How can that be when they can't grow any more food than what they do grow now? Because it is not true that they can't grow any more food then they do now. Yes some countries can not but overall they can grow more, and if they can export their food and cash crops to the US and Europe without restriction many of them will be able to afford things like fertilizers. They can't afford better farming methods now because those farming methods will not show a positive return. In any case if somehow they couldn't sell the food without the US trade barriers then the trade barriers are pointless. They either do nothing (so why have them?) or they cut off competition (and so do harm). However, that aside, most of our winter fruit and vegetables here on the West coast come from Argentina and Chile. How do they avoid the barriers? The barriers aren't absolute, they just mean that you pay more for those fruits and vegetables. No, its because those crops generate the most $$$. The market doesn't mean that everyone focuses on high margin goods. In fact if everyone did focus on high margin goods their margins would go down and they would no longer be high margin goods. "There are some relatively advanced farms in poor countries," Where? More advanced than American farmers? How does "relatively advanced" become "more advanced then American farmers"? It seems there are tariffs on many things beside just food. Yup. I'm against them as well. Its just that food subidies and tariffs and non-tarriff trade barriers are the current subject at hand. Also the governments intervention in this area is particularly strong. Another example of trade barriers that hurt both US consumers and poor countries is barriers in the textile industry. As for you links I think they do a good job of arguing my case. A better job then some of the links I posted before. Thanks. Tim

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