- CUBA: MOVE TOWARD A SOUTHERN TRADE BLOC COULD SWEEP
CUBA INTO MERCOSUR.
While President George W. Bush attempts to increase enforcement of sanctions against Cuba, recent elections elsewhere in the region have brought to power leaders who are moving quickly to reincorporate Cuba into the Latin American community. In the face of a great southern revolt against the US-sponsored Free Trade Area ......
- Moving on: Chile's alternatives to
NAFTA.
CHILE IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST SUCcess stories of the 1990s. With an annual growth rate of over seven percent per year--the second fastest in the world--Chile has caught the attention of businesses around the world, from the United States to the European Union, Asia, Canada, and Mexico. For most ......
- Canada's southern exposure: Latina America's
northernmost neighbor takes an interest in hemispheric
affairs.
In January 1998, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada, with a coterie of provincial premiers, business-people and university presidents, led the largest-ever Canadian trade mission to Latin America. The "Team Canada" mission, which involved high-profile visits to Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile over a 13-day period, resulted in some $1.1 ......
- FTAA's uncertain path
the FTAA will boost trade and improve credit conditions throughout the hemisphere, but new disputes bumper progress. Negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) have never seemed so important or so unlikely to materialize. First proposed by President Clinton in 1994 and then promoted as a central ......
- FTAA's uncertain path. (International Affairs
Section).
The FTAA will boost trade and improve credit conditions throughout the hemisphere, but new disputes hamper progress. Negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) have never seemed so important or so unlikely to materialize. First proposed by President Clinton in 1994 and then promoted as a central ......
- OC exporters may finally see free trade with Chile
Orange County companies doing business with Chile have been waiting seven years for South America's most advanced economy to join the North America Free Trade Agreement. Now they're betting their waiting days are numbered. "Chile will be the next country added to NAFTA," asserted Jorge Gonzalez, Beckman Coulter Inc.'s director ......
- North American Free Trade Agreement: a perspective
from Canada.
The recently signed NAFTA will create one of the world's largest trading blocs and major uncertainties among its three partners. In the North American scheme of things, Canada's population is one-tenth that of the U.S. and one-third that of Mexico. Naturally, the total labor force figures parallel these numbers, as ......