AGRICULTURAL TRADE LIBERALIZATION UNDER NAFTA: REPORTING ON THE REPORT CARD

NAFTA - Report Card on Agriculture

Table 5: Benefit to Beverage Processing Sub-sector of Own Country
from NAFTA--Percent Response for Each Report Card by
__________________Country and Total._________________________________

Source: Compiled from response data.

industry in their export sector more than does the United States. It may also be
a large country∕small county issue.

Benefits to the Beverage Processing Sub-sector

A great deal of uncertainty across countries was evident in the first
report card on the beverage processing sub-sector, as 34 percent overall, and
24, 45, and 25 percent of respondents from Canada, United States and Mexico,
respectively, did not know what the impact of NAFTA had been (Table 5). This
may reflect a general lack of knowledge among workshop participants about
the beverage processing sub-sector. Of those offering an opinion, the majority
of Canadians and Mexicans felt there had been a large gain, while the majority
of Americans believed there had been a small gain with the remainder indicat-
ing either a large gain or no change.

The second report card witnessed a much higher percent (up from 32
to 72 percent overall) indicating a small gain to the beverage. This increase
came from decreases in the large-benefit, no-change, and don’t-know catego-
ries. All three countries registered dramatic shifts to the small-gain category.
Apparently considerable learning occurred during the workshop.

Benefits to the Grains and Oilseeds Sub-sector

On the question of NAFTA’s benefit to one’s own grains and oilseeds
sub-sector, Canadian responses in the first report card all fell in the large-gain
(47 percent) and small-gain (53 percent) categories, compared to 15 and 55

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