We are not the sole producer of but a very few products. Unless we can get all other trading nations of the world to agree with us on embargoes, they generally become one sided and hurt the producers and workers of the nation that is doing the embargoing. Just this week, I had Taiwanese students in my office for a visit. One of the obvious reasons is that they recognize the opportunity for Taiwan to follow and also become a member. I think the young generation of Taiwan also understands that the growing economic relationship between Taiwan and the mainland is making the distance across the straits less and less with every coming year.
China is without question potentially the largest agricultural market in the world.
While they will strive to provide their citizens with basic food stuffs, as their economy grows, they will increasingly want value added agricultural products of the kind that our nation produces. Also, again the rule of law begins to play. Today they are number one. In fact, their production is greater than all of the other nine top producing nations in the world combined. If they were in the WTO, we would have much greater control over the amount of concentrated apple juice that they are now selling in this market.