* The author is a visiting Research Associate from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, who is working with TDRI's International Economic Relations Program.

1Jeffrey Schott in "Comments" on Carlos Alberto Primo Braga, "NAFTA and the Rest of the World," in Lustig, Bosworth, and Lawrence, 1992.

2Gestrin and Rugman, p. 3.

3Ibid, p. 27.

4Hufbauer and Schott, 1993, p.114-6.

5Wonnacott, 1993.

6Ibid.

7Ibid, pp. 9-15.

8Hufbauer and Schott, 1993, p. 112.

9Ibid, p. 114.

10This section relies heavily on the review of empirical studies by Carlos Alberto Primo Braga in his chapter "NAFTA and the Rest of the World" in Lustig, Bosworth and Lawrence, 1992.

11Braga, p.234.

12See Laird, Samuel. "U.S. Trade Policy and Mexico: Simulations of Possible Trade Regime Changes." International Trade Division working paper, the World Bank, 1990.

13See Erzan, Refik and Alexander Yeats. "Free Trade with the United States: What's in It for Latin America?" Working Paper 827, the World Bank, 1992.

14Braga, p.218.

15The models discussed were developed in Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, and Robert M. Stern, "A North American Free Trade Agreement: Analytical Issues and a Computational Assessment," World Economy, vol. 15 (January 1992), pp. 11-30; Horacio E. Sobarzo, "A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Gains from Trade for the Mexican Economy from a North American Free Trade Agreement," World Economy, vol. 15 (January 1992), pp. 83-100; and David Cox and Richard G. Harris, "North American Free Trade and Its Implications for Canada: Results from a CGE Model of North American Trade," World Economy, vol. 15 (January 1992), pp. 31-44.

16The study reported in Plummer and Imada is Robert McCleery, "NAFTA and Its Effects on Other Regions: U.S. Trade Policy and Asia's Concerns in a Global Context," Regional Integration and Its Impact on Developing Countries Project, East-West Center, 1993.

17Hufbauer and Schott, 1993, p. 113.