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To: tejek who wrote (323209)	1/29/2007 4:57:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574171

Gov't subsidies have nothing to do with the growing demand for corn. Government subsidies for ethanol do increase demand for corn, as do government requirements that ethanol be used, and government tariffs on importing ethanol (from countries where they wouldn't use corn to make it). As for Mexico, it grows its own corn. The fact that it can't produce enough corn has more to do with its incipient corruption and inefficient farming methods than anything the US is doing. We are part of a free trade agreement with Mexico. Unless there is an exception for corn, there would be one corn market between the two countries, and it wouldn't much matter where the corn is produced (except in terms of things like farm price supports). But maybe there is some sort of exception here, NAFTA hasn't eliminated all trade barriers between the US and Mexico. Does anyone have specific information about how corn is treated under NAFTA?