NACTS Reports

• North America Next
  A Report to President Obama on Building Sustainable Security and Competitiveness
  November 2009
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  The objective of this initiative, which was undertaken by NACTS with the input of its trinational Board of Advisors, its faculty advisors and a large group of private and public sector partners, was to promote a more cooperative, secure, sustainable, and competitive North America. The release of the recommendations was timed to coincide with the new President and his administration settling in and searching for details and implementation mechanisms for their visions.

  North America Next has achieved wide circulation and the report continues to serve as NACTS' principal set of guidelines for dealing collaboratively on North American issues.  Read more about the report on the NACTS project page: North America Next.

  
  
• CANAMEX Trade Corridor Economic Profile
  An Analysis of the Economic Benefits for Citizens Living Along the Corridor
  April 2010
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  In 2008, NACTS met with the Executive Director of the CANAMEX Corridor, Marisa Paula Walker, to discuss ways to develop a user-friendly profile of the economic benefits of the corridor for citizens living along this important trade shed. The challenge included producing a top-level document that highlights key international trade facts and statistics that could be easily understood by policy makers, business people and citizens alike.

  The draft was presented to the Governor of Arizona’ CANAMEX Corridor Task Force in Tucson on January 6th, 2009 and NACTS received useful feedback to take the project to the next level. The 2009-2010 updated draft is now a 38-page report.

  
  
• North American Opportunities and the Sun Corridor
  A Report for the Maricopa Association of Governments, the Central Arizona Association of Governments and the Pima Association of Governments
  December 2009
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  The goal of this report was to assist the Arizona Councils of Government in conceptualizing and developing the Sun Corridor as an economic entity.

  
  
• Assessing Scrap Tire Legislation in the U.S.-Mexico Border States
  Phase I Report to the Council of State Governments-WEST/ Border Legislative Conference
  November 2009
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  In partnership with the Council of State Governments-WEST, the Border Legislative Conference and USAID Mexico, in 2009 NACTS conducted a review of state legislation on the management of scrap tires in the 10 U.S.-Mexico border states. This report is a living document.