"When in Rome" comparing Canadian and Mexican strategies for influencing policy outcomes in the United States.
The United States is both very strong, in the sense that it towers over the rest of the world in virtually every measure of state capability, and very weak, in the sense that its policy-making process is extraordinarily fragmented and susceptible to external influences (Krasner, 1978). This combination of...

Imports raise the heat for vanaspati manufacturers.
NEW DELHI: Rising import of vanaspati from Nepal and Sri Lanka has threatened the survival of the domestic industry in the sector. In view of this, industry chamber ASSOCHAM has sought that vanaspati imports be put on the negative list to curb their excessive import. ...

Foreign direct investment in Mexico and the 1994 crisis; a legal perspective.
I. Introduction II. Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico A. Introduction B. From the 1917 Constitution to the 1989 Regulations C. The Law to Promote Mexican Investment and to Regulate Foreign Investment D. The 1989 Regulations E. The...

Locked in? Canada's external constitution under global trade governance.
The negotiation of supranational trade regimes may well be considered by historians as one of the most pregnant developments which brought the twentieth century to a highly polarized close. At one pole, the specialized community of trade experts hailed the treaties that set up global and continental institutions as...

Charting the transnational dimension of law: U.S. free trade agreements as benchmarks of globalization.
I. TWO RADICAL CHANGES II. PREDICTING THE FUTURE III. LAW IN THE THIRD DIMENSION IV. SEARCHING FOR BENCHMARKS A. The five agreements B. Imagining a template C. Three sensitive issues V. THREE PARADOXICAL LESSONS I. TWO RADICAL CHANGES We are living in a time of...

CAFTA: stepping stone to the FTAA: the Central American Free Trade Agreement would extend NAFTA-style regulations to Central America on the road to an FTAA-based supranational government of the Americas.
On February 20, President Bush officially notified Congress that he intends to sign the recently negotiated Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). That letter of notification started the clock ticking on the president's so-called fast track trade negotiating authority, which Congress reauthorized in 2002. Under the fast track rules,...

New challenges for the maquiladoras: legal and policy implications of NAFTA Article 303 for United States-Mexico trade.
I. INTRODUCTION The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (1), which entered into force on January 1, 1994, has greatly stimulated the expansion of trade within North America. In particular, the phased elimination of tariff barriers for trade in goods that "originate" in North America, along with...

Bilateralism, multilateralism, or regionalism? Japan's trade forum choices.
The Japanese government today is actively and strategically choosing among various institutional thrums to deal with its trade partners, namely bilateral venues, multilateral settings, and even preferential regional arrangements. This ongoing high-profile institutional selection is somewhat unprecedented for Japan, and demands a review of the historical and analytical reasons...

Mexico: NAFTA and the prospects for North American integration. (The Border Papers).
The Study in Brief The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has had a profound effect on Mexico's trade and foreign direct investment. In 2000, to keep the process going, Vicente Fox, the new Mexican president, introduced proposals for deepening North American integration--including a common currency, a...

Public money and private business (or how to survive Hollywood's imperialism): film production in Spain (1984-2002).
Spanish cinema is governed by the industrial criteria of the market only in the distribution and exhibition sectors. The 122,906,883 Spanish moviegoers who attended movie theaters during 2002 make the Spanish market one of the largest in Europe. Only 13,499,453 of the tickets sold throughout the country, however, were...