Gustavo Vega

Bio

Academic Background

Yale University, New Haven, Ct.: Ph.D. in Political Science. Doctoral Dissertation: "Bilateral or Plurilateral Free Trade in North America: Political and Economic Implications for Mexico." (1991)
Yale University: M.A. and M. Phil. in Political Science. (1979-1981)
El Colegio de México, Mexico City: M.A. in Political Science (1976-1978)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Law Faculty: Licenciatura (L.L.B.) in Law. Thesis: "The Bellum Justum Theory and the Supression of the Use of Force in International Law" (In Spanish.) (1966-1973).

Areas of Expertise

Mexican Foreign Economic Policy
North American economic Issues
Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in NAFTA

Present Positions

Coordinator of the Inter-institutional Program for Research on North America (PIERAN) administered by El Colegio de México
Professor at the Center for International Studies of El Colegio de México, México City, from September 1982 to the present

Previous Positions

Visiting Professor and Associate Director of the Center for North American Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA January- April 1998; January – April 1999
Director of the Program for North American Studies at CIS of El Colegio de Mexico from 1990 to 1997
Visiting Professor at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, and director of undergraduate studies in Latin American Studies (Sept. 1993-July 1994).
Professor and Researcher (with rank of Associate Professor) at the School of Social Sciences, Department of Law, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapozalco Campus, Mexico-City

Other Activities and/or Memberships

2001

Member of the binational panel established under NAFTA’s Chapter XIX for the Review of the Gray Portland Cement and Clinker from Mexico, seventh Administrative Review (8/1/96-7/31/97) file USA-MEX-99-1904-03

2000

Appointed by the Government of Mexico to the Roster of authorized persons to serve as arbitrates in the matters of copyright regulations and connected rights according to Chapter III, Section IV, of the Federal Law on Copyright, published in the Official Gazette of the Federal Government of Mexico on May 7, 1997. Ratified en 1998 and 1999.

1999

Member of the binational panel established under NAFTA’s Chapter XIX for the Review of the Final Determination of the Antidumping Investigation issued by the Mexican Trade Ministry on the imports of High Fructose Corn Syrup from the United States of America (File No: MEX-98-1904-01). I also acted as chairman of the Panel

1998

Appointed by the Rules Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to the roster of panelists charged with adjudicating anti-dumping and countervailing duty disputes for the WTO.

1998

Appointed by the Government of Mexico to the roster of experts charged with evaluating the standards of compliance of the labor laws regarding working conditions and labor security according to the terms of the parallel side agreement on labor cooperation of NAFTA. Appointment made in August.

1996:

Member of the binational panel established under NAFTA’s Chapter XIX for the Review of the Final Determination of the Antidumping Investigation issued by the Mexican Trade Ministry on the imports of rolled steel plate originating from Canada (File MEX-96-1904-02). I also acted as chairman of the Panel

1995-1996:

Member of the binational panels established under NAFTA’s Chapter XIX the Review of the Final Determinations of the Antidumping Investigations issued by the Mexican Trade Ministry on the imports of flat coated steel plate products (File MEX- 94-1904-01) and the imports of rolled steel plate products (File MEX-94-1904-02), from the United States. I also acted as chairman in both panels.

Since 1994:

Appointed by the Government of Mexico to the roster of panelists charged with adjudicating anti-dumping and countervailing duty disputes under Chapter XIX of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Publications

Books

(With Gustavo del Castillo), The Politics of Free Trade in North America, Ottawa, Canadá , Center for Trade Policy
and Law, 1995. 292 p.
(Forthcoming) Mexico, the United States and Canada: From Free Trade to a Common Border. México, El Colegio de México, 2003.
Capítulos de libros
“NAFTA and the EU: Toward Convergence?” en Jeffrey, J. Anderson, (ed) Regional Integration and Democracy: Expanding on the European Experience, (Boulder, Co. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999). Pp. 225-261
(with Beatriz Leycegui) , “Eliminating ´Unfairness´ within the North American Region: A look at Antidumping”in Michael Hart (ed) Finding Middle Ground: Reforming the Antidumping Laws in North America. (Ottawa Center for Trade policy and Law, Carleton University, 1997) pp. 251-304
"Regional Agreements: The Mexico-Canada-US Negotiations", en Murray G. Smith y Debra P. Steger, comps., Trade Policy in the 1990s: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law on May 17, 1991, (Ottawa, Centre for Trade Policy and Law, 1994,) pp. 67-85.
"The Free Trade Policy 'Revolution' and Party Politics in Mexico", en Charles F. Doran y Gregory P. Marchildon, comps., The NAFTA Puzzle: Political Parties and Trade in North America, (Boulder, San Francisco & Oxford, Westview Press, 1994,) pp. 197-221.
"Mexico, Latin America, and the Group of Three in the Context of the North American Free Trade Agreement," en Donald Berry, comps., Toward a North American Community: Canada, the US and Mexico,(Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1994) pp. 107-128
"México, el TLCAN y el Grupo de los Tres", en Andrés Serbin y Carlos Romero, eds., El Grupo de los Tres: asimetrías y convergencias, (Caracas, Venezuela, Instituto Venezolano de Estudios Sociales y Políticos/Fundación Friederich Ebert de Colombia FESCOL, 1993,) pp. 167-207.
"Mexico, the US, and Canada. Trade Talks for a North American Free Trade Area: Main Issues and Its Likely Regional Impact", en José Augusto Guilhon Albuquerque (coord.), Regional Economic Integration. Proceedings of the International Colloquium. December 9-13, 1991, (Brasil, Programa de Política Internacional e Comparada, Universidade de Sao Paulo, julio de 1992,) pp. 23-53.
"Critical Issues in NAFTA: A Mexican Perspective," en John Kirton y Sarah Richardson (eds.), Trade, Environment, and Competitiveness: Sustaining Canada's Prosperity, Ontario, Canadá, Mesa redonda Nacional sobre el Medioambiente y la economía, 1992, pp. 131-152.
(With Craig VanGraasteg) "The North American Free Trade Agreement: A Regional Model?", en Sylvia Saborio and contributors, The Premise and the Promise in the Americas in the 1990s, Overseas Development Council (ODC) and Transactions Publishers, New Brunswick (USA) and Oxford (UK), 1992, pp. 157-174.
"The Critical Non-Trade Issues in a North American Free Trade Agreement", comments to Robert Pastor, "NAFTA as the Center of an Integration Process: The Non trade Issues", en Nora Lustig et al., North American Free Trade. Assesing the Impact, Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution, 1992, pp. 199-204.

Forthcoming

“ Mexico: Export Promotion, NAFTA and the Future of North American Integration” forthcoming in Ana Margheritis (ed) Latin American Democracies in the New Global Economy, (Coral Gables, Fla: North-South Center Press at the University of Miami 2003.
(with Gary Hufbauer) “Whither NAFTA: A Common Border?” "forthcoming in Peter Andreas and Thomas J. Biersteker, eds. The Rebordering of North America? Integration and Exclusion in a New Security Context, Routledge, 2003
(with Luz Maria de la Mora) “Mexico’s Trade Policy: Financial Crisis and economic Recovery” Forthcoming in Middlebrook, Kevin y eduardo Zepeda (eds) Confronting Development. Assessing Mexico´s Economic and Social Policy Challenges (San Diego, Ca, Center for United States Mexican relations)

Journals

(with Gil Winham) “The Role of NAFTA Dispute Settlement in the Management of Canadian, Mexican and U.S. Trade and Investment Relations”, Forthcoming in Ohio Northern University Law Review, Volume XXVIII 2001-2002
“Future Integration Between Mexico and the U.S.” in United States-Mexico Law Journal, Volume 10, Spring 2002 The University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, New Mexico, pp. 17-21
(con Carlos Alba) “Trade Advisory Mechanisms in Mexico” in The Trade Policy-Making Process Level One of the Two Level Game: Country Studies in the Western Hemisphere, ( Washington, Buenos Aires, Inter-American Development Bank and Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL) March, 2002)
“NAFTA and the Environment” en Denver Journal of International Law and Policy, Volumen 30, Numero 1, Invierno 2001, pp 55-62
“Disciplining Anti-dumping in North America: Is NAFTA Chapter Nineteen Serving its Purpose? en Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law Vol 14, No. 2 , 1997, pp. 479-501.
“A revolucao na politica de comércio exterior no México”, en Política Externa, Brasil, Programa de Política Nacional e comparada, Universidade do Sao Paulo, Vol. 3, núm. 2, sept.-oct. 1994.
"Conversaçoes comerciais entre o México, os Estados Unidos e o Canadá relativamente a uma Area de Livre Comércio na América do Norte: questoes principais e seu provável impacto regional", en Política Externa, Brasil, Programa de Política Nacional e Comparada, Universidade do Sao Paulo, Vol. I, Núm. 2, sept.-nov. de 1992, pp. 138-173.
"Symposium on North American Free Trade: Editorial Introduction", en The World Economy, Vol. 14, No. 1, marzo de 1991, pp. 53-55.
"A Mexican Perspective on an FTA", en Voices of Mexico, revista de la UNAM, octubre de 1991, pp. 7-21.
" Conversacoes entre México, Estados Unidos e Canada sobre um Acordo de Livre Comercio” Contexto Internacional, quarterly journal of the Instituto de Relações Internacionais, Vol. 13, No. 2, Pontificia Universidad Católica PUC-Rio, Brazil, Julio-Dic. 1991, pp. 279-300.
"Multinational Enterprises and State Control: The Case of Mexico," Journal of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Research Institute of Social Sciences, Tokai University, Japan, Vol. 32 1990, pp 155-168.
"Economic Implications of a North American Market: A Mexican Perspective," en Christian Deblock y Maurice Couture, Un marché, deux sociétés. Libre-échange et autonomie politique, Actas del coloquio "Un marché, deux sociétés", Congrés de l'ACFAS, Université de Montréal, 1986, pp. 259-27

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