Fareed Zakaria's GPS: Featured today an author arguing for regionalism in trade in the entire Central-North American region!

 In an author's book that was being considered in the GPS program of today, the point emerged that the US tries to go it alone in production of goods--specifically, does not always take a regional approach in bringing into its supply cycle of the production of goods what other countries in the region could be contributing to its production cycles.

Perhaps, as I've been arguing (in the trade and commerce course I'm enrolled in through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute: OLLI) at American University, the US could take a more rigorous regional approach through expansion of the USMCA organization by including the Central American Countries, which are not included now in that membership, so as to bring the US and Canada and Mexico into forming a more inclusive regional trade group (by including Central American countries) to compete with the other two thriving regional conglomerates--Asia and Europe--that the program mentioned.

Again, my hat goes off to GPS aired over CNN on Sundays for bringing out the need to expand this region's supply chain by reaching out to the Central American lands for items in its supply chains to be manufactured regionally. 

My opinion.