Another protest of a different sort is planned for today outside the Hotel Jaragua in Santo Domingo. Poultry and pig farmers say they will demonstrate their opposition to the free trade negotiations currently underway between the Dominican Republic and the United States. The farmers feel that the under the terms of the proposed agreement, which seeks to remove 85% of tariffs on US imports, the domestic market would be flooded by low-cost products from the US that would compete unfairly against their produce. In particular, the farmers fear that the US would export a large number of cheap chicken legs, which is the US consumer’s least favorite part of the chicken, in contrast to Dominicans for whom chicken legs are the part of choice. A study made on behalf of the Dominican government is projecting that the Dominican economy would lose US$240 million as a result of the lifting of the tariffs. Meanwhile, industrialists and business leaders are complaining that they are not being provided with any information about the contents of the negotiations. News reports indicate that a chicken leg invasion has been outlawed by the talks conducted yesterday.