Trading Views

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(Letter in Economist) You note that Mexican exports to the United States have surged in the past two years. You also note that only 117,000 Ameri­can workers have come forward to claim the benefits offered to those displaced by NAFTA. These facts together strongly suggest that much of the NAFTA-induced growth in Mexico's exports has come at the expense of other countries and thus con­stitutes trade diversion.