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Stating that some food to Cuba is already allowed, and that removal of these restrictions will make it even easier and have more opportunities with Cuba.. Yes, it is incredibly beneficial.The agricultural market argument is rank bull****. Predicated upon the specious presumption that farmers have an overproduction of goods. Are those farmers going to start producing more to meet the demand? Will more agricultural land magically appear? Is there agricultural land going fallow now, waiting for a greater market?
"It's hard to quantify just how much of a boost the planned changes will give to U.S.-Cuban agricultural trade, said C. Parr Rosson III, head of the agricultural economics department at Texas A&M University. But he predicted it could grow to $400 million to $450 million within a couple of years.
"That's just a back-of-the-envelope estimate on my part ... but the market can make those swings very readily," he said."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/12/19/us/ap-us-united-states-cuba-agriculture.html?_r=0
Of course the Chamber wants it, they also are just fine with open borders.
Do you dispute their numbers?