Trade investment should not be seen as ends in themselves but as means to promote ease. Towards this end, citizens in all trading nations must have the right to participate in the formulation, implementation and the evaluation of international, social and economic policies. The goals of trade is the health and well being of all people, reduced inequality within and amongst nations and the establishment of environmentally sustainable societies. All trade agreements must be informed by the realization of the inequality of consumption patterns within nations and between nations and the understanding that the natural environment could not support worldwide consumption levels which presently exist amongst the middle and upper classes of the industrialized nations.

I'm very concerned that none of the listed goals of the United States for the next round of trade negotiations in Seattle explicitly mention the democratic participation for human and environmental well being. To be specific, I believe that international trade should be premised on the following principles:

Human rights. The nations of the World Trade Organization should have a human -- common human rights agenda to ensure full implementation and enforcement. This agenda should promote the broadest definition of human rights offering civil, political, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights, and rights relating to indigenous peoples and communities. The international trade agreements should allow governments to channel investments towards environmentally sustainable economic activities while establishing plans for gradual internalization of the social and environmental costs of sustainable production and consumption.

Labor, international. Should include -- that guarantee the rights of working men and women, ensure proper assistance for adjustments as markets are opened up and to promote the improvement of working and living standards for workers and their families, including the livable wage, the right to organize and form unions and to have a voice in the development of the trade policies.

Agriculture policy. Trade unions should seek to strengthen each nation's agricultural sector, making them more food self-sufficient. Countries should have the right to protect or exclude staple foods from trade agreements to maintain a system of small family farms, farming cooperatives and agricultural diversity and to employ agricultural practices which do not degrade the environment. Measures should also support financial assistance for agriculture, strengthen protections for agricultural laborers and traditional rights of indigenous peoples.

I realize my time is running out. Issues around the issues of immigration, role of the state, international trade unions should not undermine the ability of the state to meet the citizens' social and economic needs. There are also investment concerns, finance concerns, sustainable energy development, market access and enforcement and dispute resolution. They are part of my printed statement, so I won't go into that now because I'm running out of time. I just want you to know that the primary concern of agricultural policy must be feed and give proper nutrition to every person. That should be it's primary concern. After that, if there's any profits to be made, so be it. But we must feed the people first.

Thank you.

MR. SCHUMACHER: One brief question. I appreciate you're very careful with the written statement. It does not include helping hungry people when there's shortfalls in food like we are seeing in Sudan from time to time. Do you have a position on temporary food, food support?

MR. GAINZA: If I understand the question correctly, you mean should there be available to the countries that have people who are not properly fed a formal assistance to those countries?

MR. SCHUMACHER: On a temporary basis there is right now at the -- there's all kinds of problems with Sudan, the violence there. We have been a generous country over the years in providing temporary and transitional food assistance to appropriate --

MR. GAINZA: I would say, of course, we would want people to be fed in an emergency situation. But the long-term goals of the American foreign policy should be to help those countries to become more food secure insofar as developing their own agricultural sector so they are not faced with these crises.

MR. SCHUMACHER: We agree with that. We have an action plan on food security in both the United States and overseas. I'll send that to you.

MR. GAINZA: I would appreciate it. I think you realize that a global economic system based on competition between nations means that some nations are going to win and others are going to lose. When it comes to issues such as food and health care, there should be no winners and losers, everybody should be -- the global economy should work toward making everybody win in those areas. And right now I don't see the global economy doing that. I see it working toward the benefit of transnational corporations.

MR. SCHUMACHER: One area. When there are food shortages -- the crisis was very high in '95 and '96, friends in the European union put export taxes on their wheat exports and drove the price up higher than it really should have been. That's one of the things we want to take to the WTO and be quite aggressive.

In terms of food security for other people, there should be no restrictions, subsidies quite as low, but also people -- sometimes in some countries the prices are high. I'll send that to you. MR. GAINZA: Well, thank you very much.

MR. ALLBEE: Thank you. We are going to close for lunch at this point. We will resume at 1:00 o'clock. Thank you.

(At this time the luncheon recess was taken.)