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Servicing international trade has become border city's growth industry Laredo,TX,USA - San Antonio Express-news, by DAVID HENDRICKS/ The Houston Chronicle (Houston,TX) -Oct. 3, 2008 : -- Laredo certainly has prospered. Its 1990 population of 133,239 has zoomed to 237,396 in 2007. The city's retail, health care and security sectors are growing, all benefiting from the strong Mexico peso. The expanding...
WSJ has a great editorial on how we're all in this boat together. The EU-nuchs might be rooting for Obama, but when he puts up tariffs and trade barriers to satisfy his union constituents, the US will informally abandon the globalization carousel that Clinton jumped on with NAFTA and GWB will begin to look good after a couple of years of stagflation and flight capital from the US and EUnuchland to...
“I would immediately call the president of Mexico, the president of Canada to try to amend NAFTA," claimed Barack Obama back in August. That could be a problem because Canada has The Queen as head of state and a Prime Minister as head of government. OK, it wasn't a major mistake, but remember that people who will vote for Obama next month also think that Sarah Palin is stupid. On the principle that...
Canada and the European Union (EU) are set to begin preliminary discussions on deeper economic integration a mere three days after the election. It has been reported that the proposed trade deal will far exceed NAFTA. Some see this as an opportunity to possibly update the 15 year-old accord. Stephen Harper is busy telling Canadians that only a Conservative majority government will be able to bring...
Washington,DC,USA - Transport Topics -30 Sept 2008: -- Surface trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico jumped 15.9% in July from the same month a year ago, the Department of Transportation said Tuesday ... Trade among the North American Free Trade Agreement partners rose to $71.6 billion, DOT’s Bureau of Trade Statistics said in its monthly report... Truck imports to the United States rose...
I just want to say, because everyone is focusing on Sarah Palin, that Joe Biden turned in a really superlative performance tonight. The last time a Democratic vice-president (or vice-presidential candidate) decisively won a debate was when Al Gore bested Ross Perot in a debate about passing NAFTA. NAFTA. Joe Biden had his biggest moment and his biggest responsibility in this campaign tonight, and he...
The sarcasm in the title should be apparent to longtime SOC readers. This current manufacturered crisis wouldn't have legs if we had a strong manufacturering base to carry us through. Instead it's rubbed in our faces that Mexico is doing all it's exporting to Europe, with all the new manufacturering plants we put down there post-NAFTA. They've got balls to be calling for this. But then again, most...
In March 2005, the leaders of the three NAFTA countries, U.S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin met in Waco, Texas, and launched a regional defense-based initiative called the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). The initiative, heralded as the next step in regional integration within the "NAFTA Plus" agenda, is described on its...
This year's top stories include real news from Iraq, behind the scenes plans for the Security and Prosperity Partnership ("NAFTA on steroids"), US militarization of Latin America, an Executive Order to seize protesters' assets, and the Act to rout out "Homegrown Terrorism."
The Blade article that includes video put on YouTube: According to the Blade: The protest turned briefly into a chanting contest when McCain supporters emerged from the office at 10 South Superior St. to wave ‘McCain-Palin’ signs behind the ‘McCain Loves NAFTA’ signs.
OTTAWA, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ - Canadian civil society organizations
call upon Canada's political leaders to respond clearly and unequivocally
to US presidential candidate Barack Obama's challenge to renegotiate NAFTA
during this week's Federal Leaders debates.
Barack Obama has promised "to work with Canada and Mexico to amend the
North American Free Trade Agreement so that it works for all three"
countries....
When Judges Make Foreign Policy (NOAH FELDMAN, 9/28/08, NY Times Magazine) During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With Nafta and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur. In the seven years since 9/11, the question of how we relate to the world...
Alan Alexandroff recently co-wrote a CD Howe Institute paper on NAFTA titled 'Still Amigos'. See: http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/commentary_274.pdf "> Still Amigos In this Globe and Mail article, he continues to push his deep integration agenda, which includes an agreement on water exports.
