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...told his team he wanted to perform in the debate like the newspaper reporter he once was, raising questions and hammering his opponent with facts. He came up with the idea of presenting Perot with a framed picture of Hawley and Smoot, the architects of the 1930 economy-crippling tariff. "Our principal mission," said Gore's chief of staff Jack Quinn, "was to demonstrate that the stuff Perot has been putting out about NAFTA was garbage." Gore spent most of Tuesday reading alone. Meanwhile, in an effort to set the volatile billionaire on edge, White House aides publicly called Perot...
Mexico, like most other Latin American countries, went through a deep economic crisis in the 1980s. Since 1986 and especially when President Carlos Salinas de Gortari took office at the end of 1988, Mexico has implemented drastic and sometimes painful economic reforms: Since 1988, Mexico has cut the maximum tariff rate from 100 percent to 20 percent. It has exceeded its GATT commitment on tariff reduction, cutting the average trade-weighted tariff from over 25 percent in the mid-1980s to 4 percent...
This unilateral tariff reduction has already brought benefits to the U.S. economy. Estimates show that between 1985 and 1989 the increase in U.S. exports to Mexico has generated nearly 400,000 new jobs in the American economy. The trade surplus Mexico enjoyed with the U.S. in the 1980s has been transformed into a trade deficit of over 20 billion dollars in 1992. This trade deficit is enormous for Mexican standards (6.5 percent of Mexico's GDP) and has produced considerable job losses...
...more easily understood -- and sold -- than "free trade." We all know the costs of war. Just turn on the TV. It's less easy to see the costs of trade barriers. And of course they're less severe. But they're there. Just one example: surely Mexico's 20% tariff on American automobiles, which would be phased out under NAFTA, keeps Mexicans from buying American cars. Why is that good? Why doesn't Ross Perot mention...
Some of Perot's arguments against NAFTA appeal blatantly to U.S. xenophobia, with more subtle tugs at racist strings. For example, he warns that Asian and European nations are eager to take advantage of NAFTA by investing in Mexico and sneaking their products across the tariff-free U.S.-Mexico border into the United States--a foreign invasion scenario with ominous undertones of a commercial Pearl Harbor...