Outside Event: April PURCE Economic Policy Luncheon Featuring Roberto Salinas-León

You must reserve a spot by noon on April 11 at:  https://events.blackthorn.io/en/3ktO526/g/1DDqcB2naP/april-2025-purce-economic-policy-luncheon-4a9GNs3sNF/overview

The Purdue University Research Center in Economics invites you to our final economic policy luncheon of the spring semester! Join us on campus for a presentation on tariffs, trade and the future of U.S.-Mexico relations, a catered lunch and networking.

Registration is open for:

Trump 2.0, Tariffs and Trade

with special guest Roberto Salinas-León

President, Mexico Business Forum

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Eastern

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Rawls Hall, 3rd Floor Commons

100 S. Grant Street

Purdue’s West Lafayette campus

Salinas-León will discuss the evolution of U.S.-Mexico economic ties under North American trade and investment integration since the beginning of NAFTA in 1994, later USMCA in 2020, and the new threat of a “trade war” in the region with the threat of imposing tariffs and taxes on global trade and investment in the new Trump administration.

President of the Mexico Business Forum Roberto Salinas-León is an economic analyst who presents on trade, Mexico-U.S. relations, the future of democracy and more. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on NAFTA and free trade, structural reform in Mexico, and monetary and exchange rate policy. Salinas-León is also director of the Center for Latin America of Atlas Network, an adjunct fellow of the Cato Institute, and a senior debate fellow and debate lecturer at the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. He earned his PhD in philosophy at Purdue.

Space is limited for our luncheons, and registration is required. Please register by noon on Friday, April 11. We look forward to seeing you in Rawls Hall!

Parking is available in the nearby Grant Street Parking Garage.

Reach out to us with any questions at purce@purdue.edu and (765) 494-3782.

Learn more about our research center at business.purdue.edu/centers/purce.