import-sensitive
             commodities; for these. Longer transition periods as well as quotas and
             tariffs were handled under side agreements. Some of these products include
             sugar and frozen concentrated orange juice. Relief against import surges'
             was also separately agreed. For the U.S., these separated agreements
             applied to imports of Mexican onion, tomatoes, eggplants, chili peppers,
             squash and watermelons. For Mexico, special safeguards were agreed for
             live swine and most pork products, apples and potato products. (Economic
             However, by early 2002, it was clear that the protections worked
             better for the U.S. agricultural industry than for Mexico's farmers. In
             short, many agricultural provisions of NAFTA created farm jobs (or at least
             farm income) in the U.S., and threatened Mexico's mainly peasant farmers
             with further economic hardship. Even before the round of tariff cuts for
             U.S. agricultural goods entering Mexico in 2003, U.S. pork cuts cost only
             27 cents a pound in Mexico, versus $1.14 for Mexico-raised pork. This is
             possible because of the differences in government subsides for pork
             producers. In the U.S., subsidies amount to about $20,000 a year; in
             Mexico, it's only about $700. (Smith 2002)
             Observers say that Mexico has, however, done well since NAFTA with
             labor-intensive crops. More than half of the cucumbers and one-third of
             all tomatoes consumed in the U.S. are grown in Mexico (Smith 2002), which
             would mean an increase in such jobs for Mexicans, and a decrease for
             Americans. The picture is not so cle
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