It's a domestic policy, hands off  right and this was one of the arguments  one of those potent arguments that they've used in the last forty years  right but it's incredibly naive  because any domestic policy will have an international dimension  I remember the  about  European Community  right but it wasn't for the operation of the common agricultural policy  countries in the European Community would be net importers of agricultural goods as we were  ten years ago   bec because er of protectionism we've now increased our self sufficiency to the point where were a net exporter of agricultural goods  what implications has th does that have for international trade?