NAFTA

NAFTA On January 1st, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, creating the world’s largest free trade area. Among the main objectives is the liberalization of trade between Canada, Mexico and the United States, to stimulate economic growth and give the NAFTA countries equal access to each other’s markets. Some of the promised benefits were 200,000 new U.S. jobs from NAFTA per year, higher wages in Mexico, a growing U.S. …

…I say it’s time to repeal NAFTA.” Works Cited Page Chomsky, Noam. Notes on NAFTA: The Masters of Mankind. http://www.cs.unb.ca/~alopez-o/politics/chomnafta.html Hightower, Jim. There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. Parenti, Michael. Against Empire. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1995. “NAFTA at 5 years report card.” Editorial. Public Citizen 22 December 1998. http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/nafta/naftapg.html.