If your favorite veggie wrap no longer has avocado in it, you can ask your economist to explain avocado prices with supply and demand.…
The Travels of a Car Seat
With components that crisscross countries until they are assembled. our car seats are global because of incentives from NAFTA.…
The Surprising Tale of the Mexican Soda Tax
The surprising impact of the Mexican soda tax demonstrated that consumer and supplier responses can be unpredictable.…
The Human Side of Offshoring
Typical of offshoring decisions by manufacturing firms, Carrier Corporations’s Indianapolis plant is sending its jobs to Mexico.…
How the Trans-Pacific Partnership is About New Balance and Nike
Looking at tires, fashion and NAFTA, we can see the lost jobs opposition to free trade and the pro free trade response.…
The Surprising Reason Your Car Was Made in Mexico
More than its low labor costs, Mexico is attracting car manufacturers away from the U.S. because it has free trade agreements with more than 40 countries.…
Why Might Salsa Prices Soar?
During the 1970s we did not eat many limes, maybe less than 1/2 a pound each year, and most were from Florida. Now our consumption has tripled and the lime has gone global. Faced with cheap Mexican li…
More Expensive Ice Cream?
Milk prices are going up. And yet, in the US, we are drinking less milk. According to Corey Geiger, managing editor of Hoard’s Dairyman magazine, one reason is oil. Countries in the Middle East …
B(T)FF… Best Trading Friends Forever
We can say that Mexico believes her top trading partner is the United States because the value of her exports to the US (2013: $370,826,831) added to the value of her imports from the US (2013: $370,7…
Is "MexiCoke" Making a Mistake?
In Nevada convenience store coolers, at Wal-Mart or Costco, people empty the shelves the minute the Mexican Coca-Cola arrives. Coke says the glass bottle is the reason. Coca-Cola drinkers say they pre…