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In the mid-1990s, Mexico joined the multilateral trading system, strengthening its trade liberalization through a series of domestic foreign trade policies. This consolidated the export of finished goods and various raw materials, making this market one of the most important in Latin America. This article identifies some of these foreign trade policies by characterizing the diachronic behavior of exports. For this reason, this work, essentially descriptive, considers secondary official databases, both local and international. It is concluded that among the products that have the greatest impact on Mexico’s total exports, some sectors stand out, such as beverages, technology, household appliances and automobiles, in addition to sectors such as mining and agricultural raw materials. All of them have notable importance compared to other countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A partir de la década de 1980, en el Brasil y México se adoptaron estrategias comerciales y productivas divergentes, con importantes efectos en sus respectivas estructuras productivas y comerciales. En este estudio se investiga la manera en que los diferentes patrones de especialización comercial de los dos países incidieron en la complejidad de sus respectivas estructuras de producción entre 1995 y 2011. Se argumenta que, si bien los patrones de comercio exterior del Brasil y México difieren principalmente en cuanto a sus estructuras de exportación, los procesos de apertura comercial y de inserción en las cadenas globales de valor llevaron a una reducción de la complejidad de la red de interrelaciones entre los sectores. Dado que estos países constituyen las dos mayores economías de América Latina, la reducción de la complejidad de sus estructuras productivas no solo tiene repercusiones en la dinámica de sus respectivas economías nacionales, sino también en la de las demás economías de la región. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent studies have questioned the explanatory power of Thirlwall's Law in the case of Mexico and other developing countries, due to its omission of foreign trade specialization and use of time series for empirical evaluation. In response to these criticisms, this article estimates income elasticities of export and import demand using dynamic panel models in a bilateral framework between Mexico and 39 trading partners, including the composition of exports and imports as key regressors. Once controlled for the composition of international trade, the results from the estimates using the weak version of Thirlwall's Law accurately predict the economic growth observed in Mexico between 1990 and 2016. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since its beginning the 1980s, the globalized model of economic development in Mexico has generated paradoxical results. On the positive side, Mexico attained a privileged position among the mayor economies of the world by becoming the 13th largest exporter and the 12th main importer, while simultaneously turning into a high-ranking recipient of foreign direct investment. These positive results deeply diverge with the mediocre performance in economic growth and the high levels of unemployment, informality and poverty. In this paper we argue that these paradoxical results are the consequence of structural disequilibrium caused by the reorientation of production towards export-based global value chains, which did not contribute to the development of an integrated industrial sector with forward and backward linkages between foreign and local firms. The flows of trade and investment that were stimulated by the North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta) did not promote economic growth in Mexico because of structural weaknesses that derived from an exporting sector where foreign firms limited the value-added produced by local firms, and created an inelastic supply of imported inputs. Hence, the export-led model became a development strategy that weakened the capacity for the consolidation of a strong and dynamic internal market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the initial interactions between the Export-Import Bank, also known as Eximbank, of the United States and the administrations of Mexican presidents Lázaro Cardenas and Manuel Ávila Camacho. The loans given by the Eximbank to the Mexican government are discussed, as is the bank's role in economic relations between Mexico and the United States from 1935 to 1942. Aspects of Mexico's funding for foreign trade, the United States' use of the loans to promote its own exports, and the process of Mexico's economic development and modernization are also explored.

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This paper presents an extended model that includes Thirlwall's simple rule. Growth in Mexico fell from an annual average of 6.76% in 1961-1981 to 2.95% in the 1982-2004 period. Net lows of capital, rents and transfers promote and stabilize the economy, but devaluation does not improve growth. Income growth rates and income elasticities between Mexico and the United States have become equal, which prevents convergence of per capita income. Mexico must design and implement an industrial policy if it wants to increase its rate of growth and face the fall of oil reserves and the changes in US immigration policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document studies the long term functions and the adjustment dynamics for Mexican foreign trade with both aggregated and disaggregated data. Exports depend on the U.S. index of industrial production and the real exchange rate. The level of imports is a function of the Mexican index of industrial production, the level of total exports and the real exchange rate. An important result is that almost all the estimated functions, for both the long and the short run, are stable for the 1990-2000 period while almost none of them is stable for the whole sample. This fact suggests that the opening up of the economy that took place during the eighties caused a pronounced structural change in the Mexican foreign trade and that NAFTA is the natural continuation of such a process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has the purpose of showing that after the first years of North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) operations, Mexico's northern border states have been benefited differentially by improving their economic integration to United States and Canada, conducting to a distinct ranking of productive capabilities within this region. It is shown that after this restructuring process, winners are not necessarily those entities with prior best economic performance. Particularly, considering the employment growth Baja California, appears as the great winner and Sonora as the loser. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]