The proponents of NAFTA sold the agreement on the premise that removing barriers to trade among the U.S., Mexico and Canada would bring economic growth and new jobs. In reality, however, NAFTA was designed first and foremost as a license for U.S.-based global corporations to operate unhindered throughout the continent. One of the results of NAFTA was a flood of subsidized U.S. agricultural products into Mexico, which had a devastating toll on small farmers, forcing many to leave the land - and their homeland. The numbers speak for themselves. In 1989 just 2.5 million undocumented workers lived in the U.S.; by 2005 the number had quadrupled, the greatest number of these newcomers being from Mexico. And, in contrast to the mid- and late 20th century, when undocumented workers were more li...
..., beans, powdered milk, sugar and 200 agricultural products were reduced to zero, setting in motion a...
Although David M. Dickson cites arguments from both sides of the free-trade debate within the United States, he grossly ignores the social and economic effects of NAFTA in Mexico ("Free-trade advocates rally at RNC," Business, Sept. 3). Indisputably, since 1994, the flood of subsidized U.S. agricultural products into Mexican markets because of the North American Free Trade Agreement has caused a sharp decline in Mexico's ability to compete in the agricultural sector.
... teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences to meet major needs and challenges in dev..., handling, and storage of agricultural products; a Plant and Animal Pest and Disease Control Progr... development program with the United States/Mexico Foundation for Science (7 U.S.C. 3292a). (lv) Admi...
Most recently on July 18, President Bush set an urgent time-table of 60 days for a new Cabinetlevel committee to announce safety limits on products, especially food, being imported into the U.S. According to aTrade and Environment Database (TED) case study, published online by American University, regarding pesticide use in Mexico, "Toxicity threatens U.S. consumers in the 'circle of poison' effect in which unregistered or banned pesticides are exported to Mexico and sprayed on crops whose produce is then exported back to the U.S." More specifically, 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP) was banned in the U.S. in 1979, yet it continued to be used on crops in developing countries such as Nicaragua and Costa Rica for years after that cut-off date. What a U.S. Trial Could Do In light of the ...
..., the USDA reported the cost of total agricultural U.S. imports to be $6.1 billion. In April 2007, 15...
... do great damage to our country's agricultural economy. . Many times in recent years, Farmers Uni... ministerial conferences was in Cancun, Mexico, in September 2003, (13) but it ended in the failu...agricultural products. (26) However, many times the export problems we i...
... -- I know that we used to have some New Mexico pictures here. I don't know if that's one of them...agricultural products, help protect the agricultural sector fro...
... the Americas comprises Canada, Brazil, Mexico and the US. . Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech ...
...(a) Services of workers from Mexico. Services performed before 1965 by foreign agricul...
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