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Section 22 Commodities: Florida's Section 22 commodities should 

 not be tariffied. The U.S. has a Section 22 waiver, and Inasmuch as 

 Canada's dairy and poultry regimes will not t^ tariffied, in either a 

 trilateral or bilateral, tariffication of our Section 22 is not desirable. 



Tarifflcation of Section 22 In the NAFTA could also set an undesirable 

 precedent for future bilaterai or piurilaterai free trade negotiations with 

 other Latin American and Caribbean countries under the proposed 

 Enterprise for the Americas Initiative. 



Tarriflcatlon of Section 22 could also undermine and complicate our 

 position in the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs 

 and Trade since the proposed market access levels In the Uruguay 

 Round will most likely be more conservative than those in the 

 proposed NAFTA. 



This Is not an issue of competitiveness. For example there is no 

 questton that our Sectton 22 crops are more competitive than 

 Mexico's, but the root of the matter Is that Section 22 Is subject to a 

 multilateral waiver that the U.S. was granted In 1955 for the GATT, and 

 therefore, it should only be dealt with in the multilateral context of the 

 Uruguay Round 



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