A principal American worry has been that subsidized Chinese produce could flood the United States, hurting domestic growers.

On five occasions in the last eight years, the Colombians have been accused by domestic growers of selling cut flowers below fair value.

But so, of course, do domestic growers who make a killing around Valentine's Day and take whatever they can get off-season.

French supermarkets may put on a dazzling display of imported oranges, but there are no domestic growers to complain.

Further, Mr. Marx said, the market forces generally favoring cheaper imported flue-cured tobacco have not disappeared and will continue to haunt domestic growers.

They should deliver brighter juice to American consumers and help domestic growers compete against imports, the Agriculture Department recently announced.

Most companies, she said, buy at least some crops from domestic growers; some grow some themselves.

Yes, the International Trade Commission found that material harm had been done to the domestic grower.

The National Narcotics Intelligence Consumer's Committee said that in 1988 about 25 percent of the American market for marijuana was supplied by domestic growers.

Of course this had a very negative impact on domestic growers and consumers.