Abstract

HERNANDEZ PEREZ, Juan Luis. Mexican agriculture from NAFTA to USMCA: Theoretical considerations, general balance, and development perspectives. El trimestre econ [online]. 2021, vol.88, n.352, pp.1121-1152.  Epub Dec 13, 2021. ISSN 2448-718X.  https://doi.org/10.20430/ete.v88i352.1274.

Since 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was launched as a “development strategy” for Mexico. Recently, the United States, Mexico, and Canada renegotiated this treaty, which gave way to a new one called the United States­Mexico­Canada Agreement (USMCA). This new agreement aims to modernize trade relations, including those in the agricultural sector, without moving away from the neoliberal essence of the previous one. Therefore, this work seeks to propose the probable effects of this new trade agreement on Mexican agriculture, taking into account the role that Mexican agriculture plays by the economic development strategy and the current government agricultural development policy.

Keywords : NAFTA; USMCA; agriculture; imperialism and unequal development; corporate and imperialist agri­food regime.