Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on International Development, Finance, Trade, and Monetary Policy
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Of the agreement establishing the Border Environment Cooperation Commission and the North American Development Bank -- Funding environmental needs associated with the North American Free Trade Agreement / Sierra Club -- Analysis of environmental infrastructure requirements and financing gaps on the U.S. / Mexico border.
Author : Vanda Felbab-Brown
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815732953
In her Brookings Essay, The Wall, Brookings Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown explains the true costs of building a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, including (but not limited to) the estimated $12 to $21.6 billion price tag of construction. Felbab-Brown explains the importance of the United States' relationship with Mexico, on which the U.S. relies for cooperation on security, environmental, agricultural, water-sharing, trade, and drug smuggling issues. The author uses her extensive on-the-ground experience in Mexico to illustrate the environmental and community disruption that the construction of a wall would cause, while arguing that the barrier would do nothing to stop illicit flows into the United States. She recalls personal interviews she has had with people living in border areas, including a woman whose family relies on remittances from the U.S., a teenager trying to get out of a local gang, and others.
Author : Paul Ganster
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442231122
Systematically exploring the dynamic interface between Mexico and the United States, this comprehensive survey considers the historical development, current politics, society, economy, and daily life of the border region. Now fully updated and revised, the book provides an overview of the history of the region and then traces the economic cycles and social movements from the 1880s through the beginning of the twenty-first century that created the modern border region, showing how the border shares characteristics of both nations while maintaining an internal coherence that transcends its divisive international boundary. The authors conclude with an in-depth analysis of the key issues of the contemporary borderlands: industrial development and maquiladoras, the North American Free Trade Agreement, rapid urbanization, border culture, demographic and migration issues, the environmental crisis, implications of climate change, Native Americans living near the border, U.S. and Mexican cooperation and conflict at the border, and drug trafficking and violence. They also place the border in its global context, examining it as a region caught between the developed and developing world and highlighting the continued importance of borders in a rapidly globalizing world. Richly illustrated with photographs and maps and enhanced by up-to-date and accessible statistical tables, this book is an invaluable resource for all those interested in borderlands and U.S.-Mexican relations.
Author : Erik Lee
Publisher : SCERP and IRSC publications
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,8 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 0925613533
Author : Leslie Alan Glick
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 940351485X
On July 1, 2020, after much expectation and delay, the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)—a greatly revised version of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) of 1994—came into effect. This timely book by the author of the preeminent guide to NAFTA and an active participant and private sector advocate in the USMCA negotiation and legislative process provides a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the new agreement, clearly describing what has changed from the earlier agreement and what is new. After a concise but expertly calibrated summary of NAFTA, the author proceeds systematically through a practical analysis of each USMCA provision, emphasizing such crucial new elements as the following: new rules on intellectual property rights; stricter rules of origin within the automotive industry; major reforms in Mexican labor laws and their enforceability; opening of Canada’s agricultural and dairy sector to more U.S. competition; entirely new chapter on digital trade; new dispute mechanisms; requirement of an increased minimum wage in auto plants; and a new chapter on environmental standards. Changes in such important aspects of trade as textiles and apparel, ownership of hydrocarbons, cross-border trade in services, and anticorruption measures are also fully described. The USMCA is a response to a United States initiative to renegotiate NAFTA. As a key regional trade agreement with vast global ramifications, familiarity with its content and rules is essential for all business, legal, policymaking, and academic parties concerned with international trade. This useful practical guide will be a welcome addition to private and corporate libraries, including corporate counsel, customs brokers, freight forwarders, logistics and import-export managers, government officials, and academics who need a thorough understanding of the new agreement.
Author : Suzanne Michel
Publisher : SCERP and IRSC publications
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : 0925613401
Author : Vicente Sánchez
Publisher : SCERP and IRSC publications
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 2006
Category : All American Canal (Calif.)
ISBN : 0925613495
Author : Paul Ganster
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742553361
Systematically exploring the dynamic interface between Mexico and the United States, this comprehensive survey considers the historical development, current politics, society, economy, and daily life of the border region. Now fully updated and revised, the book analyzes the economic cycles and social movements from the 1880s that created this distinctive borderlands region and propelled it into the twenty-first century and a globalizing world. Richly illustrated with photographs, maps, and tables, the book concludes with an analysis of key borderlands issues that range from the environment to migration to national security.
Author : Paul Ganster
Publisher : SCERP and IRSC publications
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 9780925613288
Author : C. J. Alvarez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 147731900X
From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and highway networks of the twenty-first century, Border Land, Border Water examines the history of the construction projects that have shaped the region where the United States and Mexico meet. Tracing the accretion of ports of entry, boundary markers, transportation networks, fences and barriers, surveillance infrastructure, and dams and other river engineering projects, C. J. Alvarez advances a broad chronological narrative that captures the full life cycle of border building. He explains how initial groundbreaking in the nineteenth century transitioned to unbridled faith in the capacity to control the movement of people, goods, and water through the use of physical structures. By the 1960s, however, the built environment of the border began to display increasingly obvious systemic flaws. More often than not, Alvarez shows, federal agencies in both countries responded with more construction—“compensatory building” designed to mitigate unsustainable policies relating to immigration, black markets, and the natural world. Border Land, Border Water reframes our understanding of how the border has come to look and function as it does and is essential to current debates about the future of the US-Mexico divide.
