Posted on 12/14/2002 6:01:24 AM PST by madfly
More NAFTA fallout.
What “accord” and by whose authority – the United Nations and other foreign groups? Rep. Jim Kolbe says NAFTA has nothing to do with Agenda 21 or Borders XX1...could he be wrong? *~*
Let's hope this man is a good leader and becomes one of a multitude.
To change the status of these criminals, what could Mexico possibly put on the table? They'll agree to about anything, then reneg on what they agreed to. The Mexican and the North Koreans and Yasir Arafat are very much alike in this regard.
The average Mexican citizen didn't make the NAFTA agreement just like the American citizens didn't. The deals were made at the top. The Mexican politicians had it in their plans all along to get rid of the campesinos ---but there's one thing they never counted on ---some don't want to leave Mexico and become some day laborer in the US or someone's meek gardener. Mexican politicians can't understand love of country or patriotism, every Mexican ex-president packs up and leaves Mexico when their term is over because all they care to do with Mexico is raid it and then leave.
Let's hope this man is a good leader and becomes one of a multitude.
Like us he probably feels like he's peeing in the wind but he knows what is right and is going to stand his ground.
Wake up Mexico! The UN doesn't give a rats heiny about the little people! They aren't trying to raise you up to our level they are bringing us down to yours. They want global control through universal peonship.
Tequila industry warns subsidy cuts could choke sector
TheNewsMexico.com - 12/14/2002
Mexico's tequila industry could slip into deep crisis after Congress voted this week to reduce subsidies to the sector, the Tequila Regulatory Council (CRT) told AFP on Friday.
"The subsidy reduction will have an impact on tequila companies' profits," said CRT Director Ramon Gonzales.
Legislators slashed tequila industry subsidies 25 percent as negotiations on the 2003 budget package continue in the Chamber of Deputies. The government will cut its subsidy to Tequila manufacturers from six to 4.50 pesos for every kilo of "Tequilana Weber" blue agave consumed. The agave plant is the raw material essential in tequila production.
Although agave prices are currently falling, both the plant's growers and tequila producers "aren't in as good a position as they were in three or four years ago," said Gonzalez.
The CRT announced last Thursday the tequila industry had begun to recuperate after smoothing out price differences in Mexican and U.S. markets.
Six months ago, a bottle of tequila in Mexico cost an average 23 dollars, while the same bottle cost 18 dollars in the United States.
"Today the prices to consumer [in Mexico] have been leveled out with those in the U.S.," Gonzales said.
Gonzales warned that the subsidy reduction would stifle any upswing in the industry.
The subsidy cutback came as part of the changes made in the Federal Revenue Law, passed Thursday in the lower house.
Industry sources said the change took tequila producers by surprise.
Reducing subsidies will put pressure on prices, and the sector will be expected to modify its sales projections for 2003.
The current price of "Tequilana Weber" blue agave is 14 pesos per kilo (1.40 dollars), though in 1999 it was priced as high as 80 centavos (.80 dollars).
Last year Mexico produced 170 million liters of tequila, 98 million liters of which were for export.
The United States made up the primary market for tequila, taking in 82 percent of Mexico's exports, while Europe bought 11 percent of total exports.
http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=42113
Canada also has job protection provisions in NAFTA..only the US thinks workers are expendable
That is just what they got..we get their illegals and they get our chicken legs and auto plants ..sounds fair to Washington
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