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I think we have had some problems with that. I think also the 

 other thing is that people are slow to realize what foreign govern- 

 ments are doing and how heavily they are subsidizing some of their 

 value-added exports, specifically pork, when you look at Denmark 

 and the Netherlands. 



Just as an aside, Denmark, pork is their largest export for the 

 whole country, so I think they made it a very high priority. 



Mr. CONDIT. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. 



Mr. Krajeck, I am concerned about the U.S. AID programs work, 

 at cross-purposes with us. You apparently have similar concerns. 

 Has your organization ever filed a formal or informal protest about 

 your problems? And if you have, what were the results? 



Mr. Krajeck. We have never filed a formal or informal protest. 

 We have had discussions with AID periodically. But nothing that 

 has ever been substantive. 



We have tried through the cooperator program to bring attention 

 at USDA to AID programs operating at cross-purposes, but it is 

 very difficult to get any progress on those issues. I don't know 

 where the State Department is going with the AID program. It is 

 clear that agriculture is going to have very little voice in trying to 

 stop programs that are counterproductive. 



Mr. CONDIT. Can you elaborate on — is there a reason why you 

 didn't file a fomial or informal protest? 



Mr. Krajeck. I don't know what the reason would be. I think 

 that we thought that it was probably not going to be productive. 



Mr. CONDIT. It was just simply a matter of you wasting your 

 time and so you 



Mr. Krajeck. That was our view of it. 



Mr. CONDIT. I have a question for all of you. Were any of you in- 

 vited to participate in the development of the "Long-Term Trade 

 Strategy," and do any of you have any thoughts on the usefulness 

 of such a document? 



Mr. Krajeck. I can answer that. We were not invited to partici- 

 pate, nor to comment. In fact, it has only been within the last cou- 

 ple of days that we have even seen the document. And while I have 

 reviewed it, it was very quickly. 



It would seem to me that some of the points being made in the 

 document with regard to exports are valid. In particular, that if we 

 are going to have an export policy, that we have legislation that 

 supports that policy. 



Mr. CONDIT. Mr. Terhaar. 



Mr. Terhaar. No, we were not consulted on it. I have not re- 

 viewed the document yet. I guess my opinion on the approach is 

 that, again, it is good to have a strategic direction, to have a clear 

 sense of what the agency and its client group need to accomplish. 

 But, again, I think the best long-range plan for Government agency 

 is the compilation of those long-range strategic marketing plans of 

 the people who actually do the exporting. And those are the private 

 businesses. 



Mr. CONDIT. Mr. Notar. 



Mr. Notar. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



We did respond to a survey from the Foreign Agricultural Service 

 and to that extent, we have had some input to the development of 

 the plan. 



