North-American Interfraternity Conference

In 1920, Henry Ford built the first Ford Motor Assembly Plant in Michigan; fast-forward almost a hundred years later to 2016, and Ford has not only expanded outside of the United States, but has made plans to build a second plant in Mexico. The $1.6 billion dollar plant, which will be located in in San Luis Potosi will be built by 2018. Ford announced earlier in April that the second Mexico plant would create roughly 2,800 jobs. Ford also said they would also invest over $3.6 billion dollars to…

ship them back to the country they came from. Foreign companies typically use this business practice because it offers cheap labor and tax breaks. The use and presence of maquiladoras did not become so immense in Mexico until the 1990’s when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) stepped in. In the mid 1990’s NAFTA helped the spread of maquiladoras in Mexico, increasing the amount of factories and availability for U.S companies to expand onto…

The Trans Pacific Partnership has benefits for the economy, agriculture, and manufacturing. This agreement would lead to and end of copious amounts of high taxes on American products. “The Office of the United States Trade Representative said it eventually would end more than 18,000 tariffs.” (Calmes). More positives of the new pact reported by Office of United States Trade Representative are that the TPP provides new…

The feeling of pride, innovation ,and success still felt as of today because of expo 67. It’s creativity, and pride has contributed to the success of Canada. Expo 67 is viewed as the most successful exhibition for its time. It changed Canada’s economy , and for each Canadian that was there. The whole country came together and enjoy its success. This was the turning point in canadian history, and finally Canada came out from it’s past. Expo 67 is yet the most successful world exhibition in…

“Nearly five million American manufacturing jobs – one out of every four – have been lost since implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO)”(American Jobs 1). The worst part of this is that the TPP will further the devastation of jobs in the U.S. Many jobs will be lost to other countries included in this…

BSCL 415-T102 Nancy, Sylvia, Flora and Tony 9.2 Group Assignment After NAFTA takes effect, Mexican produce products such as tomatoes with lower price because their lower labor costs which threat to the United Stated producers. The United Stated tomatoes producers in Florida are worried about Mexican robbed their business because of their lower labor costs. Therefore, The United Stated producers asked for the government to set up a minimum floor price for tomatoes from Mexico. This can prevent…

The purpose of this research paper is to clearly define the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the South African Development Community (SADC). The two agreements selected are both vastly different and the few similarities between the two are thoroughly discussed. Conflict management protocols that each nation uses will provide a further understanding of the many differences. The goals of each agreement are examined to further understand the future of the NAFTA and SADC nations. The…

An important factor in understanding Hendrick Smith’s argument in Who Stole the American Dream, is understanding globalization. This is because many have attributed the downfall of the American Middle Class as well as the American Dream in part to globalization. Globalization is worldwide integration, interaction, and development. Globalization can describe anything from international trade to the global spread of popular culture, such as a Hollywood film, to immigration and terrorism. Some…

export and devoting more than 500,000 people throughout the country. Yet, Canada might not grasp the full significance of its crude oil and natural gas resources due to a lack of infrastructure to transport the extracted resources to refineries in North America and elsewhere. This infrastructure confronts results in eastern Canadian refineries trusting predominantly on imported foreign sources of crude oil. Thus, TransCanada has argued to build oil export port in Quebec as segment of its…

Introduction In recent years, researchers have given considerable attention to investigate the nature of North-American integration – the process that covers the North-American continent through which countries cooperate with each other (Cardarelli & Kose, 2004). The public discussion of the role of NAFTA Agreement is heated and ongoing because of the Canada`s importance as U.S. trading partners. Many research produce evidence that NAFTA has a positive effect on the Canada`s economy while others…