Date: January, 2009
Abstract: When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was negotiated in 1994, there were concerns in both the United States (U.S.) and Mexico about the impact of free trade on each country’s food and agriculture industries. There were prophecies that Mexican farmers, unable to compete with the U.S., would abandon the countryside. In the U.S., there were concerns that Mexico would flood the U.S. market with cheap vegetables and fruits, driving American farmers off of their land, while import...
Research Type: Archived N. Am. Outlook