{"id":272600,"date":"2010-02-03T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T21:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/nafta-should-not-take-fall-mexico-s-failure-reform-39000\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T21:21:44","slug":"nafta-should-not-take-the-fall-for-mexico%c2%92s-failure-to-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/272600","title":{"rendered":"NAFTA Should Not Take the Fall for Mexico\u0092s Failure to Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 02.03.10 10:59 AM posted by Jim Roberts<\/p>\n

\n<ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/cargo_containersUSA.jpg">\"\"<\/p>Participants at a <atitle="http:\/\/www.carnegieendowment.org\/publications\/index.cfm?fa=view&id=24271" href="http:\/\/www.carnegieendowment.org\/publications\/index.cfm?fa=view&id=24271">recent conference in Washington blamed Mexico\u0092s failure to achieve above-average economic growth in the past decade on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). *This criticism is unfair and unwise.* The NAFTA agreement is one of the best examples in recent history of a successful, mainstream, and bipartisan project.* According to the <atitle="http:\/\/www.chamberpost.com\/2009\/02\/nafta-at-15-assessing-its-benefits.html" href="http:\/\/www.chamberpost.com\/2009\/02\/nafta-at-15-assessing-its-benefits.html">U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in the 15 years since NAFTA came into force annual U.S. trade with Canada and Mexico has tripled to nearly $1 trillion.* More than 100,000 small and medium-sized U.S. firms now employ Americans to produce goods and services for export to our NAFTA neighbors.<\/p>\n

NAFTA was conceived by President Bush 41, ardently supported by President Clinton (at some considerable political cost to himself), and later promoted as a good model for economic development under the administration of President George W. Bush.* The discussion at the Carnegie Endowment seems to be an ideologically driven departure from something that has delivered good results and should be continued.<spanid="more-25521"><\/span><\/p>\n

The real problem, of course, has been the steady refusal of the deeply entrenched public-sector labor unions and politicians on the left in Mexico and the corporatist enablers who head Mexico\u0092s many monopolistic and oligopolistic companies to make the <atitle="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/LatinAmerica\/bg2135.cfm" href="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/LatinAmerica\/bg2135.cfm">badly needed economic and governance reforms that would open key sectors such as energy to competition and private foreign and domestic investment. *NAFTA has been a success for both the U.S. and Mexico, to the extent that it has been permitted to succeed in both countries.* Unfortunately, since President Obama came into office he and the U.S. Congress have taken some steps that conflict with either the letter or the spirit of NAFTA (e.g.<\/i> the cases of \u0093<atitle="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/LatinAmerica\/wm2357.cfm" href="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/LatinAmerica\/wm2357.cfm">Mexican Trucks\u0094 and <atitle="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/LatinAmerica\/bg2135.cfm" href="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/LatinAmerica\/bg2135.cfm">\u0093Buy America\u0094).<\/p>\n

President Felipe Calderon has been trying to get some reforms through the Mexican Congress, but has been largely stymied. *The answer is not \u0093to overhaul NAFTA\u0094 but to finish the overhaul of the economy and to observe NAFTA rules in the U.S.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/03\/…ure-to-reform\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 02.03.10 10:59 AM posted by Jim Roberts <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/cargo_containersUSA.jpg"><\/p>Participants at a <atitle="http:\/\/www.carnegieendowment.org\/publications\/index.cfm?fa=view&id=24271" href="http:\/\/www.carnegieendowment.org\/publications\/index.cfm?fa=view&id=24271">recent conference in Washington blamed Mexico\u0092s failure to achieve above-average economic growth in the past decade on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). *This criticism is unfair and unwise.* The NAFTA agreement is one of the best examples in recent history of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}