tariff cuts negotiated under the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) affected …What causes U.S. trade with Mexico and Canada to continue growing faster, for up to a decade, relative to countries … with which the U.S. does not have a free trade agreement? Baier and Bergstrand (2007) suggest that tariff phase-out and …

Trade liberalisation in Mexico started in a significant way in 1985/86, and was consolidated by the NAFTA agreement … changed. Secondly, there has been a sharp increase in the propensity to import (partly related to US direct foreign investment …

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a comprehensive trade liberalizing agreement among Canada, Mexico … cross-border investment, phytosanitary standards, cooperation regarding the environment and labor, and set up a dispute … question is, were these expectations met? NAFTA countries did not stop with NAFTA as their only regional trade agreement. Each …

only with a renewed commitment to open multilateral trade. …

NAFTA and GATT will dramatically alter regulations protecting U.S. peanut markets and will allow foreign producers …, the effects of GATT appear manageable; NAFTA may ultimately require major policy reform. Possible alternatives are …

products, and red meats. Since the signing of the agreement, U.S. total agricultural commodity trade with NAFTA members has … trading partner's excess demand and excess supply, is used to study the impact of NAFTA on trade, controlling for other trade …This paper examines the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement on agricultural commodity trade using …

We analyze the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and United States farm subsidies on U ….S.-Mexican illegal immigration and agricultural trade. The theoretical analysis develops an integrated trade-migration model and shows … that NAFTA and U.S. subsidies exacerbate the illegal labor flow and increase U.S. exports. The theoretical analysis is …

Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). The move towards the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015 and the attempts to …

economic convergence, trade, investment, employment, wages, and income distribution. We show that NAFTA has basically failed to …In this chapter, we analyze the expectations and the realities about the economic impact of NAFTA on Mexico in terms of …