Description

The United States and Mexico are vastly different nations, one rich, the other poor, one with political and legal roots in England, the other a blend of Imperial Spain and ancient native American civilizations. If the countries implement the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), they would begin an unprecedented experiment in economic integration—the creation of a single market spanning an industrialized country and a developing country with over one-third the population but only one-tenth the per-capita gross domestic product (GDP).