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The North American Free Trade Agreement, economic change, relations with the US, domestic politics, the environment, human rights, and narcotics trafficking; 7 articles.

Intro -- MEXICO: OUTLOOK AND U.S. RELATIONS -- MEXICO: OUTLOOK AND U.S. RELATIONS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 MEXICO'S NEW ADMINISTRATION: PRIORITIES AND KEY ISSUES IN U.S.-MEXICAN RELATIONS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- MEXICO'S NEW ADMINISTRATION -- President Enrique Peña Nieto -- Pena Nieto's Administration -- Structural Changes -- Leadership -- Top Priorities for the New Administration -- Violence Reduction -- Fiscal and Energy Reform -- Combating Poverty -- Constraints Facing the New Administration -- KEY ISSUES OF CONGRESSIONAL INTEREST IN THE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP -- Security, Drug Trafficking, and the Mérida Initiative -- Human Rights and Judicial Reform -- Migration and Border Security -- Trade: North American Integration and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) -- Energy Reform and Cooperation: The Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement -- OUTLOOK -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 U.S.-MEXICO ECONOMIC RELATIONS: TRENDS, ISSUES, AND IMPLICATIONS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- U.S.-MEXICO ECONOMIC RELATIONS -- U.S.-Mexico Trade -- Bilateral Foreign Direct Investment -- Mexico's Export-Oriented Assembly Plants -- Mexico's Regulations for Manufacturing Plants -- Plants and Employment Levels -- Worker Remittances to Mexico -- Regulatory Cooperation -- THE MEXICAN ECONOMY -- History of Economic Reforms -- Current Economic Conditions -- Informality and Poverty -- Energy Sector -- Mexico's Regional Free Trade Agreements -- PROPOSED TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP) AGREEMENT -- NAFTA AND THE U.S.-MEXICO ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP -- Effects on the U.S. Economy -- Effects on the Mexican Economy -- MEXICAN TRUCKING ISSUE -- Bush Administration Pilot Program for Mexican Trucks -- Mexico's Retaliatory Tariffs -- U.S. Concept Document for Long Haul Trucking -- Pilot Program on NAFTA Long-Haul Trucking Provisions -- OTHER TRADE ISSUES

v. 1. bk. I. Boundaries [etc.] Population, Productions, Spanish colonial system. bk. II. [The wars of independence] bk. III. Government, Navy and Army, Religion, Revenue, Trade. Appendix of documents 1809-21. bk. IV. The mines of Mexico.--v. 2. bd. V-VI. Personal narrative. Particulars of a journey from Altamira to Catorce, by Robert Phillips. Account of the province of Texas, by General Wavel. Notes on the state of Sonora and Cinaloa, by Colonel Bourne. Annexed documents. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; T.-p. missing from v. 2.

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