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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Conceptual Frameworks -- Chapter One: Managed Trade and Economic Sovereignty -- Introduction -- History -- Hegemony and Ideology -- The National Interest -- The New View -- Toward a Mixed System -- Some Common Principles -- Pluralism and the American National Interest -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Two: Global Interdependence and National Prosperity -- Introduction -- International Interdependence -- Comparative Advantage

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (usmca) was the product of a renegotiation of the former North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta) that was intended by the Trump administration to "put America first." This article analyzes the most important new provisions in the usmca that that administration believed would inhibit foreign investment in Mexico and reverse the offshoring of U.S. jobs. Some of the new provisions represent improvements over nafta, especially the limitations on investor-state dispute settlement and strengthened protections for labor rights. However, the new requirements for automobile production are likely to backfire by making North American automotive production more expensive and less competitive. On the whole, the formation of the usmca probably enhanced, rather than lessened, the confidence of foreign investors in the Mexican economy. However, the agreement is unlikely to bring about large gains in U.S. manufacturing employment or to boost the long-run growth of the Mexican economy.

At the behest of special interests & in an attempt to garner political support in key states, the Bush administration raised tariffs on imported steel in March 2002, putting the United States on a collision course with the European Union, Japan, & other steel producers. The World Trade Organization twice in 2003 declared the tariffs illegal. A month after the second ruling, the administration lifted the tariffs, denying that it had bowed to international pressures, claiming instead that the tariffs had run their course. Figures.