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To: TimF who wrote (186089)	4/5/2004 6:32:50 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574786

Secondly, all countries have trade barriers to protect certain industries. True, and they are almost universally a bad idea. Why do you think they have them? Just to piss you off? <g> However, competing is expensive and many third world nations do not have a farm program to bring their farmers up to snuff... Yes but some farmers in the third world can compete, and in any case as I said before - "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)" They do do something.....they protect homegrown industries that provide people jobs. Again, which countries are relatively advanced? And its important that they be AS advanced as we are or they really can't compete.....even with cheap labor. Its not just countries, sometimes its individual farmers in a country where most farmers use primitive methods. And it is not important that they be AS advanced. Slightly less advanced farmers with cheap labor can compete, and even much less advanced farmers can compete in some areas with the benefit of cheap labor or better climate. Even in the US farms have different level of sophistication and are not automatically locked out of the market if they fail to stay on the cutting edge of technology and techniques. If farmers want to compete effectively, they must keep up with cutting edge technology. That's a fact of life and there is no getting around it. ted