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05-29-2008, 12:59 PM #1
Two chicken stories: NAFTA’s real winners and losers
May 29, 2008
Two chicken stories: NAFTA’s real winners and losers
By Laura Carlsen
Pedro Martin works on a chicken farm just outside the village of Pegueros, Jalisco. The state of Jalisco ranks among Mexico’s top chicken-producing states, providing the nation with 11% of all chicken meat produced.
Many of Pedro’s friends and relatives have already left Pegueros, pushed up north by the bleak joblessness and poverty of their hometown. But Pedro told the Washington Post that he’s determined to stick it out in Mexico.
For many years, he and his co-workers had little reason to even consider making the dangerous trek across the border. They made a decent living at the chicken farm, and the locally-produced chickens found a steady market in the region.
But since all protective tariff barriers to U.S. imports were removed on January 1st of this year, Pedro’s not sure he’ll have a job anymore. Chicken wasn’t originally on the list for final tariff elimination in 2008. It was slated for zero tariffs and import controls for the year 2003.
Faced with an influx of U.S. chicken exports, the industry convinced the Mexican government that “imports cause a threat of serious damage to the national industry.â€
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