The U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement: Economic Impacts on the Border Region

Lonnie L. Jones, Ozuna, Teofilo, and Mickey Wright

No 257953, Reports from Texas A&M University, Agribusiness, Food, and Consumer Economics Research Center

Abstract: This paper summarizes the major expected economic impacts of a free trade agreement (FT A) with Mexico on various sectors of the economy of border areas including agriculture, retailing, the maquiladora industry, and capital investment. Estimates of impacts in terms of goods and services trade, capital investment, and employment are presented for border areas. Projections of Texas exports, Gross State Product, and employment impacts are presented for the next decade. Overall, freer trade between Mexico and the United States are likely be of economic benefit to both countries. Benefits to the Texas economy are projected to be significant.

Keywords: International; Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 1991-06-01
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/257953/files/magr-texasam-133.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:tamagr:257953

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.257953

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Reports from Texas A&M University, Agribusiness, Food, and Consumer Economics Research Center Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().