OPINION By MATTHEW ROONEY Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* America’s engagement in international trade and global manufacturing supply chains is the cornerstone of the power and prosperity of the United States. The rising chorus of voices arguing that a “go-it-alone” industrial policy will make the United States more secure and more prosperous have misunderstood this simple fact.
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OPINION By ÁLVARO SANTOS Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was born from a threat and a promise. The threat was to eliminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) altogether despite the huge regional market it helped create. The promise was to make that market more beneficial to the United States, and,
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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OPINION By ANTONIO ORTIZ-MENA Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* It is striking that, more than a quarter century after the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) entry into force, it is still necessary to provide a business case for deeper North American cooperation on economics and beyond, but that is where we are. After the 1989 Canada-U.S.
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OPINION By GOLDY HYDER Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* Just like the covid-19 virus, the devastating effects of climate change know no borders. Flooding, forest fires and other extreme weather-related natural disasters are now regularly wreaking havoc on communities across North America. The costs of these catastrophes are measured not only in dollars and pesos, but in
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OPINION By IÑIGO FERNÁNDEZ BAPTISTA Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* In 2006 — more than 16 years ago — in the midst of the bird flu, Jeffrey Staples published an article in Harvard Business Review stating that a pandemic could become the single greatest threat to business continuity. That prediction took solid form with the covid-19 pandemic
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By RICARDO CASTILLO After the storm comes the calm. On Friday, Aug. 31, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer sent to Congress the done free-trade agreement between Mexico and the United States, leaving Canada out of the deal…for the moment. Talks between Lighthizer and Canadian NAFTA negotiator Chrystia Freeland at the end of the day did not go sour, but the two could
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Hold the tequila! During the bilateral U.S.-Mexico celebration on Monday, Aug. 27, because the administrations of Donald Trump and Enrique Peña Nieto had come to agreement, Mexico’s Peña Nieto invited The Don to a tequila toast that the U.S. president referred as to the new Mexico-U.S. Trade Agreement. In fact, Mexico’s still greenhorn diplomat, Foreign Relations Secretary Luis
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