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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (37434)	8/2/1999 12:50:00 AM
From: Michael	Respond to of 152472

OT Is New Zealand preparing to declare a lamb war?? CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australian lamb producers began Sunday what they say will be a one-month picket of the United States embassy in Canberra to protest U.S. lamb import restrictions. About 30 farmers and their families lit barbecues and hoisted placards in a park opposite the embassy's main gates as Australian Federal Police and Protective Service officers stood guard. They were the first contingent of farmers who are expected to come from all parts of New South Wales state to protest against Washington's decision to hold lamb imports at 1998 levels. The move is expected to cost Australian producers about $10 million. John Cobb, New South Wales Farmers' Association president, said the protesters wanted to remind U.S. Ambassador Genta Hawkins Holmes, and through her, President Clinton, that America had acted in defiance of its own free trade rhetoric. ''Every day we will have farmers here to remind them that if you are the leader of the free world and free trade and pull a stunt like this, then you are being totally hypocritical,'' Cobb said. The U.S. tariffs, which took effect last month and range from 9 percent to 40 percent, are intended to protect American lamb producers threatened by imports from New Zealand and Australia, which between them account for 95 percent of the lamb imported into the United States. American producers had complained that current tariffs of less than 1 percent were too low to protect them from foreign competitors flooding the U.S. market.