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1988 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 28 (1988)
Commercial Legal Relations between Arizona and Northern Mexico

handle is hein.journals/ajicl1988 and id is 34 raw text is: COMMERCIAL LEGAL RELATIONS BETWEEN ARIZONA AND NORTHERN MEXICO BORIS KOZOLCHYK* Resumen Siendo que el litigio casi nunca ocurre en negocios relacionados con el mercado transntacional entre los Estados Unidos y la region norte de Mxico, aparentemente aparece que el comercio entre estas dos regiones al momento estd iendo trabajado a su mdximo. Sin embargo, diferencias de actualidad en las leyes de comercio de los Estados Unidos y Mxico estdn daftando la confianza de los comerciantes transnacionales, y esto impide el crecimiento del comercio entre ambas regiones. Aste estudio discute la necesidad de mejorar el comercio transnacional por medio de identificaci6n y resoluci6n de estas fuentes de incertidumbre; por medio de adelantar la consistencia entre las formalidades o las regulaciones de comercio entre lay dos regiones, y por el aumento del didlogo entre los comerciantes y abogados de las dos regiones para mejorar lo cooperacirn judicial THE STATUS QUO Sonora and Sinaloa export to the United States produce, fish, assembled or semi-assembled hard goods, and handicrafts. Arizona, in turn, exports to Sonora and Sinaloa industrial, agricultural, and mining machinery; replacement parts; chemical products; and, increasingly, computer hardware and software. In addition, Arizona serves as an exit point for a considerable amount of North American land and air tourism to northwest Mexico. Despite an annual volume of transnational trade estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars, very little transnational litigation has occurred in either region. When questioned informally, leading lawyers in Arizona, Sonora, and Sinaloa revealed familiarity with no more than a handful of cases in each region. This may well be a tribute to the civility and spirit of cooperation of traders on both sides of the border. It is not, however, the result of harmonic or consistent legal institutions. Take, for example, any of the documents involved in most shipments across the respective borders. Does a Mexican truckers' bill of lading *Professor of Law, University of Arizona; LL.M., University of Michigan, 1960; SJ.D., 1966; LL.B., University of Miami (Florida), 1959; D.C.L, University of Havana, 1956.