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- <text id=89TT2674>
- <title>
- Oct. 16, 1989: Business Notes:Trade
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 16, 1989 The Ivory Trail
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 60
- Business Notes
- TRADE
- Hands Across The Rio Grande
- </hdr><body>
- <p> On his first visit to Washington since he took office last
- December, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari wanted to
- do more than exchange pleasantries with the Bush Administration.
- As it happened, he was able to cap his three-day trip with a
- flourish last week when he and President Bush signed an
- agreement to promote free trade and investment between the two
- countries. At a White House signing ceremony, Bush hailed the
- pact as evidence of "the special relationship" between the U.S.
- and Mexico.
- </p>
- <p> The accord requires the two parties to identify by next
- month industries and export products that could benefit from
- lower tariffs, and then gradually to reduce those duties. U.S.
- Administration officials said the affected products would most
- probably include processed foods, petrochemicals, electronic
- equipment and automobiles.
- </p>
- <p> Mexico, which ships about two-thirds of its $21 billion in
- export wares to U.S. markets, hopes the Washington agreement
- will make it easier to sell more goods to its neighbor. Stronger
- export sales would help finance the country's $100 billion
- foreign debt.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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