Donald Trump may be soliciting bids to build a wall along the border, but the governors of Arizona and Sonora are doing what they can to ensure there are doors and windows, at least figuratively speaking, to maintain the flow of goods, services and people.
Read More »Governors of Arizona and Sonora commit to strengthen ties despite Trump rhetoric
NAFTA overhaul – Mexico is a trade partner, not competitor
We have less than 90 days to communicate to our federal elected officials in the U.S and in Mexico about the potential “modernization” of NAFTA. In a worst-case scenario, the erection of new trade barriers could disrupt key U.S. and Mexican industries for years to come and force consumers to pay more for big-ticket items.
Read More »Business leaders say Arizona should engage in crafting NAFTA 2.0
At a forum in Phoenix this morning, business leaders emphasized how NAFTA has benefited the state’s economy, noting that more than 100,000 Arizona jobs depend on trade with its southern neighbor and roughly $17 billion in trade flows between Arizona and Mexico.
Read More »Immigration, NAFTA changes could muddle technology community, Arizona economy
The prosperity of the technology community and the local economy is the goal of the Arizona Technology Council, and the decisions on international trade and H-1B visas are critical to that success.
Read More »With distorted picture of NAFTA, U.S.-Mexico trade relations face precarious time
It is clear that there is a distorted picture of NAFTA in our nation’s capital. Rather than losing jobs due to a trade deficit, per the Mexico Institute, more than 4.9 million jobs in the U.S. are tied to trade with Mexico.
Read More »Arizona NAFTA backers express concern about Trump trade policies 
Free-trade advocates in Arizona are nervously awaiting President-elect Donald Trump’s trade policies.
Read More »NAFTA an empty basket for farmers in southern Mexico
Moises de la Cruz grows corn on a 7-acre plot of mountainous land 120 miles north of the Mexico-Guatemala border just as his father did and his father before him. He has never heard of the North American Free Trade Agreement but is profoundly aware that his life as a farmer has drastically changed over the past 20 years.
Read More »NAFTA led to illegal immigration issues in AZ
Regarding the controversy over enforcing Arizona law on immigration, the roots of this problem began in 1990 with passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which permits American agro-corporations to export billions of dollars of taxpayer-subsidized corn to Mexico at one-third the price that small Mexican farmers charge.
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