The proposed United States-Mexico-Canada North American Free Trade Agreement: the Mexican perspective

This paper examines both the Mexican position in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations and the possible implications of NAFTA for the Mexican economy, particularly for the Mexican agricultural sector. The paper is organized as follows. The overall economic environment within which the Mexican economy has operated in the last few years is examined first. The Mexican agricultural sector and the government's role in the sector are looked at next. Then the United States-Mexico-Canada trade relations and the proposed NAFTA are examined. In the closing sections, some of the issues surrounding the NAFTA negotiations are outlined, and the possible implications for the Mexican economy, and for the Mexican agricultural sector in particular, are explored. -from Author