North American Free Trade Agreement

land and is the 131st largest nation in the world. While on the other hand Mexico is located in the North America and covers about 1,943,945 square kilometers of land making it the 14th largest nation in the world. Im going to compare and contrast the two nations Costa Rica and Mexico to verify that Mexico has more going on. Mexico is located at about 23° N and 102° W in the southern portion of North America. Mexico is also three times as…

This was a law passed against "split-run" magazines. To make a Canadian edition of a magazine, US publishers would often remove the American advertisements and put Canadian advertising in their place. Thus, it was basically the same foreign magazine, except that it was paid for by Canadian advertisers.…

last article, “The Granddaddy of All Canadian-U.S. Trade Disputes is About to Rear Its Ugly Head Again”, Drew Hasselback discusses the recent problems about trade disputes of softwood lumber products between the United States and Canada. The United States and Canada are considered as each other’s largest trading partner today. The dispute has been going on since 1982 and has gone through four iterations (Hasselback, 2014). Because of this trade dispute, Canadian exports of softwood lumber…

NAFTA is an agreement between these 3 countries and it implementation meant the removal of most tariffs on traded products between the three countries. Furthermore, the agreement set rules for intellectual property and other trade elements between the 3 countries. The authors give multiple facts that focus on the possible pros and cons of NAFTA. Some of the Pros noted by these authors for NAFTA include increased trade. The authors explain that after the implementation of NAFTA regional trade…

I woke up in Los Mochis, anxious to get on with our day. The next stop was Mazatlan, which is on the Pacific Coast of Mexico across from the southernmost tip of the Baja California Peninsula. We were only planning to stay there long enough to get fuel and eat lunch. In the mid-1800’s, a large group of German immigrants transformed Mazatlan from a native fishing village into a thriving seaport. One of their continuing legacies is the local music which is called Banda and is a variation of…

There are four producers that conducted and created the documentary Maquilopolis. The names of these producers are Vicky Funari, Sophia Constantinou, Alex Armenta, and Sergio De La Torre. These four individuals are a mix of American and Mexican producers. They released this documentary in January 2006 and filmed most of the time in Tijuana and Baja California. The focus of the film was on the U.S.-Mexican border factories and the lives of the women working there. These four producers made the…

trend bring to people in Mexico? As we can see form the film “Maquilapolis”, globalization changes Mexicans’ daily lives, and impacts on their living environment and health, especially for women. “Maquiladora” is a manufacturing operation in a free trade zone, where workers work with materials that are imported assembled and then exported to other countries. Admittedly, globalization can provide cheaper cost for companies and higher salaries for workers. However, the reality is those…

politicians promising to make the normal American’s financial status better before being elected, then only helping out the corporate interests that funded their campaign after the election. The reason this works is that while the candidates forsake the American people, they do help the corporate interests once they take power, and the corporations make obscene profits which results in the President looking somewhat responsible for the huge increase in revenue which secures his reelection and…

great deal about the American failure through the consequences of Somalia. Domestic politics drives foreign policy, and in the case of Somalia, the domestic backlash sheds light on what was a step in the wrong direction for security as seen through Presidential Decision Directive 25. After the tragedy of the battle of Mogadishu and Black Hawk Down, President Clinton was facing mounting domestic pressure to ‘bring the boys home’. Congress was calling for a withdrawal of American troops, and the…

Before modern day trade agreements for the Pacific Rim countries, there was the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, which was a model for the New Zealand/Singapore Closer Economic Partnership. This led to the making of The Trans Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement. These renowned economic agreement between various countries in the Pacific were the rough drafts for the current trade agreement. The influence of these successful economic strategies pacts leads the Pacific Ocean border…