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A group of Mexican farmer leaders and academics believe that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's pledge to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, will be a good opportunity to review areas of the treaty that are not favorable to the sector in Mexico.
Experts say that after 23 years of its implementation, NAFTA, signed by Mexico, the United States and Canada in the early 90s, has helped dismantle Mexico's agricultural production system through neoliberal policies that have left millions of poor farmers without state support and have increased the country's food dependency on aboard, La Jornada reported Tuesday.
Since his presidential campaign, Trump has vowed to force Canada and Mexico to negotiate the trade deal saying it has been detrimental to the manufacturing industry in the United States, sending shocking waves of uncertainty for the already weakened Mexican economy.
[...] In the years that have followed the NAFT signing, the Mexican government has sold itself as a pro-business and lower-cost alternative for U.S. companies and in the process became a manufacturing powerhouse of cars, computers, aerospace technology and televisions.
However, the modernization process also helped dismantle the national agricultural system, which has practically disappeared, according to analysts and producers.
Source: teleSUR
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @12:37AM
Maybe the anti-NAFTA crowd should look patronize this retailer [fastcompany.com], who has always made all of its products in the USA, and mostly at its own factory in Los Angeles.
I've been in one of their stores and I didn't have much use for way-overpriced oxford shirts, but others might have different experiences.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @03:16AM
American Apparel has had a pattern of labor abuse for well over a decade.
...and, in 2010, the founder essentially turned over his company to 3 MBA types.
You can just imagine how that "improved" labor relations.
Why buy from USAian manufacturers when they treat their people as if they are Third-World inhabitants?
Their abusive practices WRT workers doesn't, however, keep the company from putting a ridiculous markup on their goods.
...and, of course, it's only the CxOs who see any of the benefits of the outrageous pricing.
It certainly hasn't "trickled down" in many years.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @04:05PM
Why buy from USAian manufacturers when they treat their people as if they are Third-World inhabitants?
This a best case scenario for what'll happen if Trump triggers a trade war against the likes of China and Mexico.