Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
Security of private property rights — formal recognition, expropriation risk, titling systems.
Tri-country free-trade agreement eliminating most tariffs between Mexico, USA, and Canada over 15 years, with additional provisions on IP, investment, and dispute settlement. Mexican entry was the landmark reform: locked in Salinas-era liberalisation, shifted Mexican trade dependence to US markets, drove maquiladora industrialisation in northern Mexican states. Controversial on US side for manufacturing displacement; empirical estimates (Autor-Dorn-Hanson 2013 on the China Shock extension) distinguish NAFTA effects from subsequent China WTO-accession effects. Replaced by USMCA 2020 under Trump renegotiation. Canonical trade- liberalisation case for Latin American catch-up hypotheses.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.