Podcasts about nafta mexico

KSKA Tuesday, Aug. 01 2017, at 2:00 p.m. This week we're hearing from Ambassador Carlos García de Alba, the Consul General for Mexico in Los Angeles on “The New NAFTA: Mexico-US Relations & Trade in the Trump Era.” The ambassador shares his views on the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico. He also discusses what all of the North American countries have to gain by working together instead of moving apart. LISTEN HERE

KSKA Tuesday, Aug. 01 2017, at 2:00 p.m. This week we’re hearing from Ambassador Carlos García de Alba, the Consul General for Mexico in Los Angeles on “The New NAFTA: Mexico-US Relations & Trade in the Trump Era.” The ambassador shares his views on the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico. He also discusses what all of the North American countries have to gain by working together instead of moving apart. LISTEN HERE

Manufacturing exports have been at the center of the Mexican development strategy since the mid-1980s, however this strategy has not resulted in higher economic growth when compared with the 1960-1980 period. This paper seeks to understand the reasons behind the mediocre results of this development strategy and its distributional implications. We use Input-Output analysis to study the empirical relationship between trade, inter-industry linkages, wage inequality and employment in the manufacturing sector in post NAFTA Mexico (1995-2011). Our results reveal that: 1) the manufacturing subsectors that produce for the export market tend to demand the least amount of inputs from the domestic economy, this means that these sectors tend to import intermediate inputs from abroad. Hence ignoring the importance of domestic value added (via strong BW linkages) has been an ineffective growth strategy, 2) these manufacturing subsectors tend to pay the lowest wages within the manufacturing sector and yet employ around half of the manufacturing working population. Therefore, contrary to the mainstream view wages in labor intensive sectors have not been increasing while wage inequality has been rising, 3) trade does not provide job security to workers since is not a stable source of jobs. I conclude this paper discussing the policy implications of the findings.

Regulatory expert, Richard Wilson discusses the MCSAC meeting recently held in Washington, D.C., on the NAFTA cross border trucking agreement.  The Teamsters and Public Citizen have filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration seeking to block the program.  We'll take an insider look at the NAFTA Mexico agreement and why Mexican carriers are saying that they do not want American or Domiciled carriers in Mexico.

Government bureaucracy continues to slam the American truck driver and the U. S. trucking industry with on-going regulations and fees. From speed limiters, HOS rule changes, EOBR's, carbon based emission control, the CSA, sleep apnea testings and the NAFTA Mexico agreement, have trucking regulations gone too far? As the FMCSA looks to pick up the tab for EOBR's to be placed on all Mexican trucks, U. S. companies and owner operators are left to fend for themselves. Allen opens up the lines for an open topic forum while asking the question . . . are regulations destroying the American trucker?

Allowing Mexican trucks to operate through out the United States will cost thousands of American drivers to lose their jobs. Mexican trucks are unsafe and will wreak havoc on U. S. public roads and highways. Mexican truck drivers will not comply with the high safety standards of the United States and by fully opening the U. S. border to Mexico's trucks, we are opening the flood gate to incoming drug traffickers and a higher profile for criminal activity. These are just a few of many of thousands of comments by drivers across America voicing their concerns over new NAFTA negotiations which would open the U. S. border to Mexican trucks. What is the truth when it comes to the NAFTA and Mexico agreement? Do these statements hold up against documented facts or are they simply a measurement to fear of the unknown?