North American Industry Classification System

outweigh the cons, and overall, the sharing of ideas with our neighbors, next door and distant, helps us progress as a society and get closer toward a middle class life for all. For example, many focus on industrialization creating job loss for Americans. “The U.S. manufacturing sector lost 5.3 million jobs between January 2001 and September” (Scott 1). While this may be partly true, statements like these create a skewed representation of the job loss, and focus on only the negatives. A job loss…

for centuries, in recent decades, the increased growth of products and services that businesses have moved offshore has not only contributed to increased global economic growth and prosperity but also has faced much controversy and debate while Americans today attempt to protect the domestic business against offshoring. The overall problem includes transportation costs, disruption in innovation and productivity, reduction of quality of products and services, job displacement, and more…

displacement, loss of jobs and loss of industries. Organizations may experience increased strain contending against the relatively lower Mexican wages and cost-structures, causing a loss of jobs and industries. The concept of environmental standards came into play, considering the horrendous environmental conditions in Mexico. Would Canadian and U.S companies now migrate to Mexico because of the negligence to enforce standards? If the standards were not up to par with American-Canadian…

Free Trade is a Free Pass to Oppose Climate Control Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything Capitalism vs The Climate argues that in order to begin to solve the issue of climate change we must abandon the free market system American democracy is based upon. Klein states, “We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism” (Klein 18). Here, I will be focusing on the claim made by Naomi Klein that free market…

. . about six million Americans receiving food stamps report they have no income.” The numbers of people in safety net programs are rising and it is getting difficult for people to contribute to their family financially. There are families struggling, many rely on safety net programs for assistance and have very little in their pockets. Many people have to even make great sacrifices in order to provide for their families and there is only so much money they can…

It explains an industry that employed a “labor force that is 80 to 90 percent female” (introduction xix), in the maquiladoras. It is about the migration of the Mexican women, whom, after leaving their homes, acquired job skills, integrated themselves into unfamiliar neighborhoods…

supply chains. This part of the agreement specifies that when available supplies for production should come from participating partnership countries. This means that in the textiles industry, since China is not a member of the agreement, that China will not be the supplier of materials for the Malaysian clothing industry. The goal is to support member nations by creating and supporting jobs, raising living standards, enhancing conservation efforts, and facilitating cross-border integration, as…

The North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, was a trilateral agreement established in 1994 to encourage commerce between the United States, Mexico, and Canada (Kehoe). The primary objective of NAFTA was to increase trade among the North American countries through the reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers (Kehoe). The secondary goals of NAFTA included the establishment of mechanisms to settle trade disputes, safeguard intellectual properties, and enforce environmental and labor…

There are many pros and cons to NAFTA, and a lot of it depends on the person. A reason that one person believes NAFTA was a great agreement may be the same reason that another person dislikes it. A con of NAFTA is that mexico has an absolute advantage. Mexico produces the most outputs, meaning that they have an absolute advantage.They experienced dramatic increase in exports from about $60 billion in 1994, to about $400 billion in 2013. Also, Mexico has an absolute advantage in terms of jobs…

continent of North America. Mexico is the 14th largest nation in the world. Mexico borders with 3 other countries which include: United States of America, Guatemala, and Balize. Size: Less than three times the size of the state of Texas. Geography: Mexico has many uninhabited islands off the E and W coasts. The center of Mexico is a great, high plateau, open to the north, with mountain chains on the east and west and with ocean-front lowlands beyond. Mexico has sweeping deserts in the north,…