Abstract:  Despite the optimism of proponents and the concerns of critics, NAFTA has had a limited direct impact on either U.S. agricultural trade with Canada and Mexico or the pattern of agricultural production and processing in the United States.  The primary impacts of NAFTA have been to stimulate U.S. imports of specific products from Mexico and to lock in U.S. trade gains achieved through the unilateral liberalization of Mexican agricultural and food trade that began in the mid-1980s.
 
 

The Texas Agricultural Market Research Center (TAMRC) has been providing timely, unique, and professional research on a wide range of issues relating to agricultural markets and commodities of importance to Texas and the nation for over thirty years.  TAMRC is a market research service of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and the Texas Agricultural Extension Service.  The main TAMRC objective is to conduct research leading to expanded and more efficient markets for Texas and U.S. agricultural products.  Major TAMRC research divisions include International Market Research, Consumer and Product Market Research, Commodity Market Research, Information Systems Research, and Contemporary Market Issues Research.