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August 29,2001
Mexico Becomes Obstacle to China
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MEXJCOCITY (AP)— Mexico
m anufactures T-shirts for $1.
China can make them for 20 cents.
Mexico produces tennis shoes for
$38. China beats the price again,
selling a pair for $13.
Mexican manufacturers feel
they can’t win against China’s
bargain basement prices. Now, as
China nears the end of a 15-year
fight to join the World Trade O r­
ganization, they seem to have the
upper hand.
Mexico has emerged as one of
China’s biggest and most unlikely
obstacles to joining the organiza­
tion that sets rules on interna­
tional trade. It is the only WTO
member that hasn’t reached a bi­
lateral trade pact with China, pos­
sibly h o ld in g up the A sian
country's W TO entry.
B oth M e x ic o and C h in a
strongly disagree about tariffs on
Chinese products like footwear
and textiles. The Mexican govern­
ment wants them extended foreight
years; China has reportedly sug­
gested three. China began liberal­
izing prices in the 1980s as it gradu-
ally shif ted from central planning
to a market-driven economy, and
its economy has greatly expanded
in the past two decades. The coun­
try began sending goods to
Mexico in the early 1990s, M exi­
can manufacturers say.
They claim they can’t compete
with the low wages and lack of
environmental and social regula­
tions that Chinese producers en­
joy. And they want to maintain
tariffs, some more than 1,000 per­
cent, for 15 years to give them­
selves time to find ways to be­
come more competitive.
Although Mexico originally
said it would not block China’s
membership even ifabilateral deal
fell through, other WTO members
will likely want to know the details
of the deal with Mexico before
approving Beijing’s WTO entry.
Under the WTO system, a deal
reached with one nation has to be
offered to all 141 members.
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El tifón Pabuk - The Pabuk typhoon
la isla - the island
las costas del Pacífico - the Pacific coasts
Los heridos - The injured
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Tifón Pabuk deja siete
muertos y unos 39 heridos
Tokio/México (Efe) - El tifón
P abuk abandonó la región de
Kanto, al este de Japón, y se dirige
hacia el norte después de haber
provocado la muerte de siete per­
sonas y dejado a tre in ta y nueve
heridas, informó ayer la Agencia
de Meteorología.
Las víctimas mortales del tifón,
un frente de bajas presio n es
procedente del sureste de Asia
que llegó a Japón el martes, se
localizaron en las regiones de
Kanagawa, Aichi, M ié, Shiga,
Osaka, Tokushima y Ehime.
Los h e rid o s causados por el
huracán, que lleva una presión
atm osférica de 985 m ilibares y
alcanza velocidades de más de
82 k iló m e tro s p o r h o ra , se
registraron en once prefecturas.
El balance de incidentes incluye
29 deslizamientos de tierra y daños
en c a rre te ra s en 16 lu g ares
diferentes y 539 casas inundadas
en re g io n e s co m o E him e,
W akayama y Mié.
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