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Number of pages in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) : 900 Final tally for the vote that narrowly passed NAFTA in the U.S. House of Representatives : 234-200 Amount of U.S. jobs some...
...Ibid...
...Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, NAFTA's Promise and Reality: Lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere...
...job-loss victims as of 2002 on Transitional Adjustment Assistance unemployment : 525,094 Estimated responsibility of trade for the growth of U.S...
...wage inequality expressed as a percentage : 15 to 20 Ratio of Mexican to U.S...
...11...
...David Bacon, "NAFTA at 10," Green Left Weekly, November 26, 2003...
...Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, NAFTA 's Promise and Reality: Lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere...
...4. Robert E. Scott, "The High Price of 'Free' Trade," Economic Policy Institute, November 2003, www.epinet.org/content.cfm/briefingpapers bpl47 5. Ibid...
...Personal communication with Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies...
...manufacturing wages : 2:10 Amount that ratio changed since the implementation of NAFTA : 0 Ratio of wages for Mexican workers as compared to their Canadian counterparts in U.S...
...border patrol agents since Number of major indigenous uprisings : 1 Unless otherwise noted all figures are the latest available as of December 2003...
...work force that are farmers : 2.7 Number of jobs Mexico's agricultural sector lost from 1993-2002 : 1,300,000 Remaining number of years until final tariffs are removed on corn : 5 Percentage of Mexico's cultivated farmland dedicated to that staple crop : 55 Approximate number of Mexican corn farmers : 4,000,000 Estimated number of undocumented Mexicans currently residing in the United States : 4,800,000 Estimated number of Mexicans who illegally cross the U.S...
...Farm Bill pays farmers over ten years : $190,000,000,000 Percentage of the U.S...
...Ibid...
...Ibid...
...10...
...Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, NAFTA ' Promise and Reality: Lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere...
...39...
...Ibid...
...Traci Carl, "U.S...
...Sources are listed on p.40 NAFTA AT TEN 1994-2004 1. Public Citizen, "The Ten Year Track Record of the North American Free Trade Agreement," November 2003, www.citizen.org/documents/NAFTA_ 10jobs.pdf 2. James O. Goldsborough, "Farm Problems Expose Weak Link of NAFTA," San Diego Union Tribune, January 2, 2003...
...36...
...8. Ibid...
...IRC, "Seven Myths About NAFTA and Three Lessons for Latin America...
...2,000,000 Total number of people in the United States who lost their jobs from March 2001 to October 2003 : 2,400,000 Chance that a U.S...
...James O. Goldsborough, "Farm Problems Expose Weak Link of NAFTA...
...Immigration Naturalization Service Fact Sheet on Border Management, February 9, 1999...
...7. Robert E. Scott, "The High Price of 'Free' Trade...
...22...
...jobs lost from 1993-2002 due to the NAFTA trade deficit : 879,280 Number of NAFTA U.S...
...Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, NAFTA's Promise and Reality: Lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere...
...Robert E. Scott, "The High Price of 'Free' Trade...
...Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, NAFTA 's Promise and Reality...
...29...
...Ibid...
...affiliates : 2:8 Number of complaints regarding labor rights violations filed under the NAFTA labor side agreement : 26 Number of those cases that resulted in anything more than a consultation between Labor Ministers : 0 Number of Mexicans living in extreme poverty according to the World Bank : 25,000,000 Number of new maquiladoras (Mexico's foreign-owned export assembly plants) from 1993-2002 : 1,137 Hours it takes a maquila worker in Tijuana to earn enough money to buy a kilo of rice : 1.5 Percentage change in the price index of Mexico's basic products (the so-called canasta bdsica) from 1994-2002 : +257 Percentage of maquiladora jobs created in the 1990s that have since disappeared : 30 Portion of Mexico's trade surplus with the United States attributed to maquila exports : 1/2 Percentage of Mexico's total exports that go to the United States : 90 Percentage change of Mexico's trade deficit with Asia and Europe since 1994, respectively : +600, +400 Percentage of foreign direct investment in Mexico represented by job-cutting mergers and acquisitions : 20 Percentage change in fresh credit to Mexico's non-banking sector because of restrictive monetary policies : -60 Minimum number of U.S...
...Robert E. Scott, "The High Price of 'Free' Trade...
...IRC, "Seven Myths About NAFTA and Three Lessons for Latin America...
...Ibid...
...From "NAFTA: A Decade of Strengthening a Dynamic Relationship," a joint statement by the three NAFTA trade representatives, 2003...
...Ibid...
...jobs some officials predicted NAFTA would create each year : 200,000 Number of "NAFTA-related [U.S.] jobs" created since 1993, according to former President Bush Sr...
...James O. Goldsborough, "Farm Problems Expose Weak Link of NAFTA...
...Also see: "Rising INS Attrition Rates Could Threaten Border Security," Government Executive, April 10, 2002...
...Hemispheric Social Alliance, "The High Cost of 'Free' Trade," June 2003...
...Interhemispheric Resource Center, "Seven Myths About NAFTA and Three Lessons for Latin America," Americas Program, November 2003...
...Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, NAFTA s Promise and Reality: Lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere...
...IRC, "Seven Myths About NAFTA and Three Lessons for Latin America...
...Robert E. Scott, "The High Price of 'Free' Trade...
...43...
...border every year : 150,000 Percentage change in U.S...
...Ibid...
...free trade agreements currently being negotiated with Latin American nations : 7 Total number of free trade agreements that Mexico has in place : 32 Percentage change in the United States' net export deficit with its NAFTA partners from 1994-2002 : +281 Number of cases brought by foreign companies seeking monetary compensation over state regulatory policies : 27 Amount Mexico had to pay Metalclad for canceling a toxic waste dump over environmental concerns : $15,600,000 Percent change in Mexico's real spending on pollution monitoring and on-site inspections since 1994 : -45 Per annum increase since 1994 of pollution produced by Mexico's manufacturing sector : +10 Estimated cost of Mexico's environmental degradation expressed as a percentage of its annual GDP: 10 Gallons of water Mexico owes the United States due to water-intensive agricultural production: 450,000,000,000 Amount the 2002 U.S...
...Dow Jones, "Mexico Halts Free-Trade Pursuit On Corp Leaders' Request," November 13, 2003...
...Ibid...
...worker in the manufacturing sector lost his/her job since NAFTA was implemented : 1 in 6 Total number of jobs lost in hardest-hit California due to increased imports from 1993-2002 : 115,723 Net number of U.S...
...Lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere, November 2003...
...Ibid...
...18...
...Ibid...
...James O. Goldsborough, "Farm Problems Expose Weak Link of NAFTA...
...9. Public Citizen, "The Ten Year Track Record of the North American Free Trade Agreement...
...Cobbling Together Free Trade Nations," Associated Press, December 5, 2003...
...3. Emad Mekay, "NAFTA has been a Disaster for Mexico, Carnegie Study Says," Global Information Network/Inter Press Service, November 18, 2003...
...6. Public Citizen, "The Ten Year Track Record of the North American Free Trade Agreement...
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