MEXICO PULLS OFF ANOTHER TRADE COUP

摘要

If ever there was living proof that free trade can pay big dividends, Mexico is it. In 1993, before the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect, the country exported $52 billion a year. Six years later, exports total $137 billion. And a newly minted accord with the European Union should take that figure even higher, furthering Mexico's goal of turning itself into a manufacturing hub for the Americas. The agreement, negotiated last year, was delivered to the Mexican Senate on Jan. 24 for ratification.