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Hipotecaria Su Casita, Mexico's No. 2 specialist mortgage lender, raised US$112 million from non-Mexican investors in the first cross-border transaction by a Mexican mortgage lender, Financial Times reported. The deal reflects continued attempts by Mexican companies to take advantage of the strong growth prospects in the Mexican housing market to ......

Jasco Teams With GE Licensing To Market GE-brand Electrical Line-up OKLAHOMA CITY — Jasco Products has signed an agreement with GE Trademark Licensing to market and sell GE-brand consumer lighting fixtures, wiring devices, home automation products, surge protection outlets, power strips and other products formerly distributed by Cleveland-based GE Home ......

To get an overall picture of how well NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) has worked, AgExporter interviewed Michael Dwyer, chief economist with FAS' Commodity and Marketing Programs area. Here are his insights on NAFTA's overall impact on U.S. agricultural trade, and on the economic fundamentals and comparative advantages ......

I. Introduction When the United States, Mexico, and Canada began negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), immigration, as well as labor and environmental, concerns arose among the discussions of free trade.1 While the countries came to sign NAFTA-related side agreements on labor rights and the environment, Mexico and ......

After four years of negotiations, Mexican and Brazilian representatives have agreed on tariff-reductions that will ease or eliminate import taxes on more than 800 agriculture and industrial products. The accord, reached in Sao Paulo in mid-June, will be signed during Mexican President Vicente Fox's visit to Brasilia July 3. The ......

Mexico's Finance Ministry on March 5 published a presidential decree that suspends until Sept. 30 several new taxes, including a 20 percent tax on soft drinks made with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). The decree takes effect March 6 and modifies and suspends several taxes passed by Mexico's Congress in ......

The United States, Mexico and Canada are working to develop a North American Free-trade Agreement (NAFTA). The goals of such an agreement are to progressively eliminate obstacles to investment and the flow of goods and services, protect intellectual property rights and establish a fair and expeditious dispute settlement mechanism. Trade ......

Host Hattie Bryant of Small Business School interviews Gasper Mir, Carolyne Fox, and a coworker of Mir, Fox, Rodriguez, an ......

Cross-border shopping typically is omitted from the current dialogue about the U.S. border with Mexico. Maybe that´s because the people doing the talking aren´t communicating with retailers along the U.S.-Mexico border. Thar´s green in them thar border towns, according to two researchers from the University of Texas-Pan American. "Mexican visitors ......

I am not intent on expounding too much on the pros and cons of this kind of vacation ownership other than to suggest that, if you travel a lot, enjoy top notch accommodations in exotic locales at affordable prices, then it's a great option. Certainly, to make it work for ......

As we moving into the new year, I've rounded up a quick list of the top travel stories of 2007.

Contrary to popular belief, communities with high levels of uninsured, Hispanic or immigrant residents generally have much lower rates of per person hospital emergency department (ED) use than other communities, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) published today as a Web Exclusive in ......