ISDS Case Map
Mexico
The loss of jobs in the agricultural industries, along with increases in the cost of living with fewer employment opportunities under CAFTA are speculated to produce economic and social hardships that will result in migration both within and outside Central American nations. Most of this migration will be directed towards Mexico and the US.
China has beaten Mexico hands down in terms of trade in the past few years, and may do even better after December, when a "peace clause" expires.
About 40 Mexican rural organizations agreed Wednesday to create a unitary front against the North America Free Trade Agreement. As part of the peaceful resistance plan, farmers will camp on the central square of Zocalo starting Monday to defend the rights of four million Mexican agricultural producers.
The amendment allows for goods originating in Israel or Mexico to undergo minimal processing or storage in a third country, such as the US or EU, and still retain duty-free status
Choquehuanca's trip has the purpose of open better markets that go beyond the Free Trade Agreement signed with Mexico ten years ago.
A large number of Indian companies like Tata, Wipro, Ranbaxy and Reliance are dreaming to expand their presence in the US and vast Latin American market by investing in Mexico, through NAFTA and other trade pacts.
South Korea is ready to accelerate its efforts to sign free trade agreements with Mexico and Mercosur, the country's top economic policymaker said Monday.
India and Mexico on Monday signed an agreement to scale up trade and investment
Peru and Mexico will begin negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on September 17. Because Peru's agricultural products do not directly compete with Mexican products, it is hoped that agreements will be reached.
The evidence is overwhelming: NAFTA has damaged the manufacturing industry in the US and Mexico. As the maquiladora industry thrives and human rights are continuously eroded in sweatshops across the globe, it is the responsibility of the US, the world's most insatiable consumer, to call attention to this injustice in the manufacturing sector and correct it.
