Broiler Procution in North America Under Alternative Free Trade Scenarios
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1992
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North Dakota State University
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A study of free trade under FTA and NFTA of broiler chickens between the United States, Canada and Mexico are presented. The objective was to optimize all costs of production. Each country had trade tariffs to protect their domestic producers. With NAFTA, a gradually phasing out of these protective measures would be take place over 5 to 10 years. Fargo, Little Rock, Portland, Charlotte and Jackson are the most competitive producing regions in the US. In this study, based upon bilateral trade agreements, Fargo could support a 400 million pounds processing plant. According to this study given the perceived benefits of FTA/NAFTA, both Mexico and Canada would reduce broiler chicken production and the US would export more to both of these.