.S. tariffs and little intra-industry trade are associated with long NAFTA phase-out periods for U.S. imports from Mexico. Mexico …'s phase-outs are correlated, on the other hand, with those of the United States but not generally with Mexico's tariffs …

which are not restrictive, namely those which do not raise costs of production, have very pronounced effects on trade and …

effect of NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to help induce Wal-Mart to enter Mexico. Once there, Walmex … new products and processes from their headquarters to Mexico. Finally, although Mexican detergent exports captured an … suppliers). They were also held back by the major re-tooling costs that Mexican producers would have had to incur in order to …

Mexico, a prominent liberalizer, failed to attain stellar gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the 1990s, and since … 2001 its GDP and exports have stagnated. In this paper we argue that the lack of spectacular growth in Mexico cannot be … extraordinary growth of exports and foreign domestic investment (FDI). The key to the Mexican puzzle lies in Mexico's response to …

In this paper, we derive three lessons from Mexico's experience. First, deep reforms like trade liberalization are not … elites breaks down. In the case of Mexico, this happened during a fiscal crisis, when some groups tried to displace other …, Mexico limited radical liberalization to the manufacturing sector. The government has only recently begun to undertake …

Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were …

Mexico. I disentangle the effects of two opposing forces on regional labor demand: transport-cost considerations, which, all … liberalization has strong effects on industry location. Consistent with the transport-costs hypothesis, post-trade employment growth … of the manufacturing belt in and around Mexico City and the formation of broadly specialized industry centers located in …

added by Mexico's maquiladora sector. We investigate whether the size of pollution abatement costs in the U.S. industry … Mexico. In Section 1. we use comparable measures of three air pollutants in a cross-section of urban areas located in 42 … higher levels of income. Section 2 studies the determinants of the industry pattern of U.S. imports from Mexico and of value …