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after a mere 6 years. 



When U.S. domestic marketing allocations are in place, imports from Mexico, or any other 

 country, above the 1.25-million-short-ton minim um, must be subject to the common external 

 tariff. To prevent substitution during or after the transition period, Mexico must apply the 

 common external tariff to all non-NAFTA sugar imports after it achieves net exporter status. 



2. Suaar-Conta inin g Produ ct Recommendation. U.S. Section-22 protections for refined sugar and sugar- 

 containing products will be phased out over 10 years. This transition period should be 15 years, not 10 years, 

 consistent with the transition period for raw sugar. 



Addendum 4: 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 be tariffied, in either a trilateral or bilateral, tariffication 

 of our Section 22 is not desirable. 



Tariffication of Section 22 in the NAFTA could also set an undesirable precedent for future bilateral 

 or plurilateral free trade negotiations with other Latin American and Caribbean countries under the proposed 

 Enterprise for the Americas Initiative. 



Tariffication 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 question that our Section 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. 



