Renegotiation of TMEC (USMC) on the Agricultural Exports of Sinaloa

Renegotiation of TMEC (USMC) on the Agricultural Exports of Sinaloa

José G. Vargas-Hernández, Omar Cristian Vargas-González
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5886-7.ch003
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Abstract

Mexico, like other countries, invested in measures to attract foreign direct investment to their territories. It therefore signed USCM in 1994, a treaty that imposed Mexico as the largest direct exporter of the United States, a country that is likely to leave the treaty by renegotiating TMEC (USMC). Therefore, this research is carried out to determine the advantages and disadvantages of renegotiation based on Sinaloa's agricultural exports, with the question of whether it would negatively impact the USMC renegotiation of Sinaloa's agricultural exports, with the hypothesis that renegotiation of USMC has a negative effect on Sinaloa agricultural exports. The purpose of this chapter will be with results in favor of the hypothesis employed.
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Introduction

In Eduardo Galeano's book “The Open Veins of Latin America” he stipulates the phrase: The people who buy rule, the people who sell served; trade must be balanced to ensure freedom; the people who want to die sell to only one people, and the people who want to save sell to more than one (Galeano, 1970).

The regional agreement called the Mexico, North American Free Trade Agreements (NAFTA) signed between the governments of Mexico, Canada and the United States in 1992 that entered into force in 1994, to create a free trade area, at a reduced cost for the exchange of goods between the three countries. In 1994 the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, now TMEC) entered into force. Since 1994 when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) entered into force, creating one of the largest free trade zones in the world and establishing the basis for strong economic growth and greater prosperity for Canada, the United States and Mexico.

For 15 years, the NAFTA has demonstrated how free trade contributes to increased wealth and competitiveness by providing true benefits to families, farmers, workers, manufacturers and consumers (NAFTA de hoy, 2017). The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a regional agreement between the Government of Canada, the Government of the United Mexican States and the Government of the United States of America to create a free trade zone (Secretariado del TLCAN, 2014).

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or United States, Canada and Mexico Agreement (TMEC) is the set of rules that Mexico, the United States and Canada agree to sell and buy products and services (Castro, 2008). It was an innovative treaty aimed at opening and expanding the North American market. Since then, the NAFTA has systematically removed most of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade and investment between Canada, the United States and Mexico, leading to the establishment of a stability and confidence framework for long-term investments.

It has been recently renegotiated as México, United States and Canada Treaty (TMEC). The TMEC was preceded by the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (EXPANSION, 2017, p. S.p). President Donald Trump was in a renegotiation crisis due to the entry into power of the government of the United States, who proposed to rearrange the rules established in the treaty with faithful benefits in his favor and if not, he announced the departure of his country from the agreement. The renegotiation has already been finalized, but there is in Mexico a wave of uncertainty about what would happen to its exports, since it is the main supplier of raw materials and a variety of merchandise to the United States.

Currently, a series of changes have emerged in the decisions of the governments involved in the TMEC, mainly the United States. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to research a viable investigation about the impact of the renegotiation on Sinaloa exports, since the state Sinaloa has earned the nickname of being the breadbasket of Mexico for the large amount of raw materials that the state produces. It is the number one state in supplying its agricultural products to the neighboring country (United States). That is why the present project is delimited in a spatial way to firmly base ourselves on determining the advantages and disadvantages that by the renegotiation of the TMEC were implemented in agricultural exports Sinaloans.

Therefore, it is of utmost importance to investigate and determine the impact of the renegotiation of the TMEC on Sinaloan agricultural exports, a state called “the granary of Mexico” for its wealth in agricultural crops and which has earned the first place of exploitation of these raw materials to be exported to the neighboring country, the United States.

That is why this research work is aimed at determining the advantages and disadvantages in production, trade and distribution network that will prevail after the renegotiation. Taking as indicators, Mexico's exports and trade, the gross domestic product (GDP), GDP per capita, and transportation logistics for export shipments, this chapter intend to

  • 1.

    Analyze the renegotiation of the TMEC

  • 2.

    Determine the advantages of Sinaloan exports

  • 3.

    Determine the disadvantages of Sinaloan exports

  • 4.

    Analyze the productions of agriculture in Sinaloa

  • 5.

    Analyze Sinaloa's trade in relation to the USA

Key Terms in this Chapter

Sinaloa: One of the 32 federal states of Mexico, located in the Northwest.

USCM: United States, Canada, and Mexico.

TMEC: México, United States, and Canada treaty.

Agricultural: Belong or relating to agriculture or farmer.

Renegotiation: Negotiation whose purpose is to introduce modifications to something already agreed.

NAFTA: North America Free Trade Agreement.

Exports: To send goods to another country for sale.

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