From: "(Jesus Ramirez)" <xkkmera@GARBO.ERICSSON.SE>
Subject: Noticias!
Reply-To: Multiple recipients of list MEXICO-L <MEXICO-L@TECMTYVM.BITNET>
Organization: Ericsson
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:42:31 GMT

Estimados mexicanos y publico que nos acompana en Mexico-l !

   Aqui les mando unas notas que me llegaron hoy dia. Espero que les sirve como
 un poco de novedad en lo que concierne a TLC y a las elecciones que se
 realizaron. Mas notas en cuanto me lleguen. Como siempre con grandes saludos.
                                           Jesus..//

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6. NAFTA HITS SNAGS IN CANADA; TRADE WAR LOOMS IN EUROPE
Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's press office
reported on Nov. 5 that U.S. president-elect Bill Clinton had
called Salinas and pledged his support for the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which makes Canada, Mexico and the
US into a single trading bloc. Clinton and Salinas agreed that
they would start "a new era of positive, cordial and firm
reciprocal relations." [Inter Press Service 11/5/92] Sources from
Clinton's transition team suggest that Salinas may be the first
foreign leader the president-elect meets with, and that the
encounter could take place before Clinton's inauguration in
January. [ED-LP 11/5/92 from AP]

But NAFTA may have problems with ratification in Canada after
Canadian voters rejected a proposed Constitutional reform in an
Oct. 26 referendum, according to the European edition of Business
Week. Noting NAFTA's unpopularity in Canada, the magazine said
that the "same majority" that voted against the Constitutional
agreement may try to block ratification of the trade agreement as
well. [La Jornada (Mexico) 11/1/92 from Notimex] (The reform
measure was the Canadian government's latest effort to maintain
the union against separatist pressure from the French-speaking
province of Quebec. Voters in Quebec and five English-speaking
provinces crushed the proposal--which was supported by all three
major national parties--raising the possibility that the
Quebecois may eventually form their own country.) [New York Times
10/28/92, 10/29/92]

While business and political leaders promoted free trade in the
Western Hemisphere, trade talks between the US and the European
Community (EC) came to a sudden halt in Chicago on Nov. 3--
Election Day in the US. Washington moved quickly to slap punitive
tariffs on EC cooking oil and white wine; with the election
campaign over, both Republicans and Democrats are supporting the
move, which threatens to set off a full-scale trade war. [NYT
11/4/92, 11/5/92, 11/6/92] There have been suggestions that the
Clinton administration may use NAFTA help form a hemispheric
trading bloc in oppostition to the EC and Japan. [Washington Post
11/8/92] In a recent letter to the editor OAS (Organization of
American States) official Robert Sayre pointed out that in 1990
35% of US exports went to this hemisphere, as opposed to 28.6% to
Europe and 12.3% to Japan; the US had a trade deficit of $43.4
billion with Japan, but a surplus of $63.4 billion with Latin
America and the Caribbean. "The answer to much of the US economic
situation," Sayre concluded, "is stronger economic development in
this hemisphere." [WP 10/27/92]
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Y en cortas aparece:
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]... Local elections in three Mexican states Nov. 8 will
present the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) with
new challenges. The conservative National Action Party (PAN) and
center-left Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) are running
candidates for governor and other offices in Puebla and Sinaloa;
the two parties are uniting behind one gubernatorial candidate in
Tamaulipas. [ED-LP 11/8/92 from AP]...

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Jesus Ramirez Mercado
Ericsson Telecom            memo: xkkmera@memo.ericsson.se
Stockholm-Sweden            e-mail:xkkmera@garbo.ericsson.se
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