When Salvatore Lauria started work at Autotek in Puebla, Mexico, there were only a few cars in the company parking lot. Now, 15 years later, the parking lot is full and the vehicles have spilled over on to the neighbouring soccer field. There are more cars today because Autotek has expanded eight times since it began stamping out bumpers and […]
Trade
Stronger economy boosts cross-border US trade with Canada, Mexico | JOC.com
The value of U.S. trade with Mexico and Canada increased by $7.8 billion in September, exceeding $100 billion for the seventh straight month as manufacturing activity and freight shipping in all three North American Free Trade Agreement partners expanded. U.S.-NAFTA freight flows totaled $102.2 billion in September, as the value of goods transported by truck, pipeline, rail, ship and airplane […]
Latin America’s Moment » North America by the Numbers
How much do Canada and Mexico matter for the United States? Here are a few snapshots illustrating the importance of our combined global heft and influence. North American countries are joined by 7,500 miles of land borders, among the longest in the world. Though comprising less than 7 percent of the world’s population, Canada, Mexico and the United States produce […]
US, Mexico and Canada, the world’s dynamic region | Regional Voices | The Olympian
Even with all of our domestic concerns, it’s a big world out there, and America must keep at least one eye focused beyond our borders. But maybe not as far beyond, says a new report from the Council on Foreign Relations. The U.S. could do itself a world of good by deepening its integration and cooperation among its closest neighbors, […]
Mexico’s rise is good for Canada. Really
In late August, Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico’s hard-driving reformist president, gathered with beaming executives from South Korea’s Kia Motors to announce the carmaker will spend US$1 billion on a new assembly plant near the northern city of Monterrey—one more new North American car factory Ontario didn’t get. The deal, Peña Nieto boasted, is part of “the success story that we […]
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