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competition from transshipment of Third Country prod- 

 ucts into the United States via Mexico's NAFTA provi- 

 sions; and d) elimination of Mexico's import licenses 

 that greatly reduce the amount of goods that are avail- 

 able for export and the product registration rules that 

 make it time consuming and costly to gain access to 

 Mexico's consumer markets." 

 We have determined that the agreed-to NAFTA meets the 

 National Grange's primary recommendation; therefore, we firmly 

 support its approval by the U. S. Congress. 



Following the completion of the negotiations in August of 

 1992, the National Grange met in November '92, in Denver, CO, for 

 its 126th Annual Convention. At that time, the voting delegates 

 reaffirmed the above policy and adopted the following: 



"The Grange must continue to support expanding 

 trade on a mutually beneficial basis. The success of 

 the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will be 

 instrumental in accomplishing some of these objectives 

 and the Grange should give it strong support." 

 The Grange believes that the NAFTA, on the whole, will be 

 beneficial to the economic growth of the United States, Canada, 

 and Mexico. The greater economic activity will be between the 

 United States and Mexico because the majority of the NAFTA' s 

 provisions have already been implemented under the U.S. -Canada 

 Free Trade Agreement (U.S.-CFTA). This is particularly true for 

 agriculture because Canada chose not to enter into most of the 



