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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)"”.
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The United States, Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
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An Assessment of the Impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the U.S. Textile Industry's Production Activities: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
The implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the United States, Canada, and Mexico created a barrier-free production and trade zone in North America. Surrounding the implementation of NAFTA, a great volume of public, political, and academic attention was given to …
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The growth of a myth : a case study of Chile's accession to the North American Free Trade Agreement
This study is an investigating analysis of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the context of capitalism and its internationalization, globalisation. The emphasis is placed on the relationship between neoliberalism and NAFTA through a comparative study of neoliberal policies …
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Neoliberalism and NAFTA: A Case Study of the Coffee Commodity System and Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico
… become more pronounced with the passing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). I examine the impacts of the neoliberal changes prior to and after the implementation of NAFTA in the community of Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico. World-systems analysis is the theoretical outline. The global …
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Modeling Production Externalities in the Maquila Industry
… Gross Domestic Product near 11 trillion USD, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represents the world's largest trading bloc in a global economy of 40.7 trillion USD. Under the current agreement, US Mexico trade has strengthened to the point where Mexico is now the United States' …
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No al aeropuerto in texxoco! : regional decision-making and community countermobilization : the siting of Mexico City's new airport
… At the turn of the century with the signing of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) there is the promise of free trade that will help bolster Mexico's national economy. For Mexico, the benefits of international economic integration are closer than ever. However, in the case of the siting …
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Sick ‘scapes : boutique and corporate food geographies and Mexico’s public health crisis
… it is getting sicker. Since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico has become one of the most obese and most undernourished and diabetes-ridden countries in the world. Its food landscape has been completely transformed. An examination of the current …
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Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: The Case of Mexican Avocados
… of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) barriers to trade in the U.S. market in the case of Mexican avocados. The SPS Agreement plays a role in the avocado market studied here through its implications for negotiations between countries that have not utilized the formal channels of the WTO for …
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Conversion from Staple to Cash Crop Production in Mexico After NAFTA: Effects of PROCAMPO and Credit Constraints
… Mexican agricultural producers benefit from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Specifically, I explore the effect of PROCAMPO’s decoupled income payments on producers’ ability to switch to cash crop production, and whether these payments continue to alleviate credit constraints for …
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Intra-Industry Trade in Agricultural Products Between the United States, NAFTA and European Union Trading Partners
… country-specific determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT) between the United States (U.S.), the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) trading partners. We analyze the food and live animal industry at the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) …
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Foreign Direct Investment, Regional Integration Agreements and Economic Growth.
… influence economic growth: regional integration agreements (RIAs), foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade. We employ the well-known gravity model as the empirical framework in which to analyse the interplay between these three factors. We also conduct a case study analysis of Mexico; this …
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Sugar and Rice Trade between the United States and Cuba Trade Potential and Welfare Analysis
… Fidel Castro and forty-five years of the U.S.-trade embargo, the political environment between Cuba and the United States is expected to change. With the Trade Sanction Reform and Export Enhancement Act in 2000, trade sanctions were eased for a while. Future trade between both countries would …
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Two essays on the sanitary and phytosanitary regulations affecting Mexico-U.S. agricultural trade
… the use of SPS regulations as hidden barriers to trade, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) mandate their members to enact SPS regulations based exclusively on biological scientific merit, under an open regulatory process. However, there are some …
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Trade Patterns of Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from the agri-food sector
… most important players in global agricultural trade, being among the global leaders in the production and exports of agricultural and fisheries commodities and accounting for 15% of the world’s average agri-food export from 1995 to 2019. The region have vast potential to strengthen their …
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Trade and the Environment: The Environment within the World Trade Organization
… mentioning of the environment in the GATT Agreement. However the member states realize that there can be overriding reasons that justify deviations from the major principles and obligations of the Agreement. For the discussion on trade-related environmental disputes there are three …
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NAFTA's distributional effect on Mexico: three essays in regional economics
… essays on the distributional effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on regional economic activity, migration and the distribution of wages in Mexico from 1980 to 2010. In the first essay, we use municipal level data from the Mexican Population and Economic censuses to …
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International Agricultural Trade Costs and Non-Tariff Measures
This dissertation investigates how agricultural trade frictions, such as tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs), impact trade competitiveness and globalization in the agricultural sector. The dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter argues that agricultural trade cost evolution …
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Three Essays on Agricultural and Food Trade Shocks and Regional Integration
… regional integration on agricultural and food trade, relying on a unique international and intranational (domestic) agri-food trade dataset and structural gravity. In the first chapter, we investigate the impact of animal diseases on trade of animal-based products. We found that animal disease …
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Services provisions in regional trade agreements : does the East African community stand to gain more from an integrated market?
… With the advent and development of technology, trade in services has grown more rapidly than trade in goods in world production. This has also resulted from ongoing economic reforms and the development of more liberal policies. Prior to the Uruguay Round of negotiations, international trade was …
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Improving caretaker mental welfare through targeted on-farm euthanasia training programs
… were Hispanic and/or Latino from South American countries. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA; TN) visa which “allows qualified Canadian and Mexican citizens to seek temporary entry into the United States to engage in business activities at a professional level.” This gives …
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