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sured that this is one item that is high on our Hst and on a front 

 burner, as are other items. 



Certainly wine is. We are aware of the disparity between the 

 treatment of Chilean wine and California wine. 



Mr. CONDIT. The supplemental agreement that you mentioned — 

 what holds that together? What really requires them to adhere to 

 it? Is it a 



Ambassador Kantor. It becomes a bilateral negotiation. There 

 may have to be some give-and-take in that. They may want some 

 acceleration of tariff reductions. Although frankly, as you know, 

 tariffs are so low on goods coming from Mexico into this country 

 that we don't have a lot of give in that respect. But we believe that 

 we can both in discussions now where we do have some leverage 

 and in discussions later we can address this issue. 



To go further than that I think might put me in a position as 

 a negotiator of negotiating with my friend, Mr. Condit, and not 

 with our trading partners, which I don't want you to do and which 

 you wouldn't want me to do. 



Mr. Condit. Certainly. 



I appreciate your response. I appreciate your consideration on 

 this matter. I do share some other concerns and will forward those 

 on to you in writing. I do appreciate you being here. I do mean that 

 we are very proud of you. 



Ambassador Kantor. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. 

 That is very kind of you. 



Mr. English. Thank you very much, Mr. Condit. 



Mr. Ambassador, is there any movement with regard to the mar- 

 ket access question in the Uruguay Round at all? 



Ambassador KANTOR. There better be or we will not have a suc- 

 cessful Round. We have had preliminary discussions in early 

 March. Those are mainly technical in nature and also in terms of 

 setting the agenda. I go to Brussels on the 29th of March. We will 

 then set some very specific meeting dates. 



No. 1 on our list is market access in agriculture, industrial prod- 

 ucts, and services. We also have other concerns, whether the MTO 

 that Ms. Long talked about earlier or in subsidy discussions of in- 

 tellectual property rights, discussion of audiovisual — which is also 

 important to us in California, as Mr. Condit knows. 



We have a number of items on the agenda. But we are moving 

 promptly as the President as directed me to do. 



Mr. English. I recall last year we had some testimony from the 

 Environmental Protection Agency talking about the environmental 

 laws in Mexico. They told us that those laws were very similar to 

 the laws we have here in the United States. The difference comes 

 not in what the laws are on the books, but rather with regard to 

 enforcement. 



So as we focus our attention with regard to what is contained in 

 any kind of agreement with Mexico, it appears to me that we may 

 be faced with the same kind of difficulty. It may be contained in 

 the agreement, but carrjdng out the enforcement is something else 

 entirely. 



We have laws on the books in this country with regard to many 

 of our agricultural products and our trade governing other coun- 

 tries. Much of that has to do with imports. The issue comes down 



