A 'Victimized' Mexico Nervous That Its Free-Trade Teacher May Betray It Chris Dalby - Xinhua
go to original August 21, 2016

Ben Stein: Here's why Trump is terrifying on trade (CNN Money)

No country appreciates being turned into a political punching bag.

Mexico has been systematically victimized by U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has accused the country of sending rapists to the United States, is planning to build a border wall, and to stop remittances being sent to Mexico. These reasons have all made most Mexicans eager supporters of his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

However, the issue of free trade may become Mexico's largest concern in the presidential race of the United States, a country that has pioneered the global economic model.

Both candidates have openly spoken out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the world's largest free-trade agreement (FTAs) signed in 2015 between 12 countries, including Mexico, the United States, Australia and Japan.

For decades now, Mexico has made free trade a cornerstone of its economic and foreign agendas. It has more FTAs with 45 countries, the most of any nation in the world, and much of its economic development has come from rivaling the likes of China and Vietnam as a manufacturing destination.

Its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) treaty, signed with the U.S. and Canada in 1994, also anchored Mexico's competitiveness by being arguably the only developing economy in the world with such privileged access to these markets.

The unexpected body swerve away from free trade by both Clinton and Trump may well have Mexico spooked.

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