In the 2nd Quarter ] 988 issue a CHOICES Debate focused on the advisability of "subsidy value-added products." Paul B. Green, a consultant to the Miller's National Federation and other agricultural processors, argued that "our trade policy needs them. " Ewen M. Wilson, Assistant Secretary for Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, argued that the effects of such policies may differ from policy objectives. Here the authors respond to the arguments presented in the p~evious issue.