Glenn Hamer

Glenn Hamer is the president and CEO of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

Hamer Times: Mexico trip wrap-up Vol. 3: Mexico City bustles with activity and enterprise

Here’s the third installment of Glenn’s look back at his participation in a historic trade mission to Mexico with a large, bipartisan delegation of stake lawmakers and business leaders. A bit of color on Mexico City. It is the largest city in North America, with a metropolitan area of about 22 million. New York City […]

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Hamer Times: Mexico trip wrap-up Vol. 2 – “What’s good for Arizona is good for Mexico”

More from Glenn Hamer on his recent participation in a historic bipartisan trade delegation to Mexico. Our delegation met with Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray, who is leading the NAFTA talks for Mexico. He could not have been any warmer in his desire to trade more with Arizona and he reiterated to our group how

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Hamer Times: Wrap-up from Mexico (Vol. 1): The World’s Most Consequential Trade Bloc

Glenn Hamer returned Saturday from a visit to Mexico City that provided a large, bipartisan delegation of Arizona legislators and business community representatives an insider’s view of the Arizona-Mexico relationship and the gravity of the ongoing renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Here are his takeaways from an outstanding trip (with more to come): Twenty-six

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Hamer Times: Mr. President, you can’t achieve 3 percent growth without trade (and other thoughts on the Phoenix rally and our trip to Mexico)

MEXICO CITY – A few quick reactions to the president’s visit to Phoenix on Tuesday. What a contrast. I’m writing this from what has so far been a spectacular bipartisan trade mission to Mexico City with over 20 Arizona legislators and dozens of private sector representatives. We’re meeting with government and business leaders here discussing

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