Fox: Mexico open to renegotiating NAFTA provisions

SJ Mercury News ^ | 1/8/03 | AP - Mexico City

[NormsRevenge]

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican President Vicente Fox said today his administration is open to the possibility of renegotiating agricultural tariffs under the North American Free Trade Agreement -- although he warned that the move wouldn't benefit Mexico.

It was the first time Fox has talked of the possibility of renegotiating NAFTA provisions that lifted tariffs Jan. 1 on many U.S. farm products. Before, he had said the Mexican government would live with the changes -- angering farmers across the country who have periodically threatened to block roads and crossings at the U.S. border.

[The Obstinate Insomniac]

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[dirtydanusa]

`We export more agricultural products than we import,'' Fox said. ``It wouldn't be fair.

Now If we can get "fair trade" with China or Japan on the products they import to the us, you'd have something, Jobs

[Clemenza]

In a few years, Japan will descend into a third-world hell hole anyway. They have been in recession for over ten years and have exported many of THEIR jobs to Malaysia and Thailand.

[NormsRevenge]

Where is a MacArthur when you need one?

Japan may do better if it is allowed to arm itself again, both with conventional and nuclear forces and capabilities, before the neXt brouhaha begins in that region.

We would be better aided by a strengthened "conquered and vanquished" ally then a "trading and cunning" ally such as China.

To ignore the dire times ahead is to deny the reality of what looms in our path.