As she well knows, at the other end of the technology sale, you might say, is agriculture, that we have a very technologically innovative agricultural industry. At the other end is agriculture. We are, again, the largest exporter of agricultural products in the world. Those talks are scheduled to take place in the year 1999 in Geneva. And the question is, will the United States be there pounding on the table, hammering at the door, demanding that other countries, Europe in particular, which has very high protective tariffs against our agricultural products, which we can and would love to sell to Europe and the rest of the world, whether we are going to be able to get those tariffs lowered, whether we are going to be able to sell more of our products overseas, more wheat, more soybeans, more of the grains and the rice and all the specialized products.
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Discussing the importance of U.S. agricultural exports and upcoming trade talks in Geneva.
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