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Paper Abstract: On the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the positive & negative effects are analyzed. Concludes that the data is inconclusive. Paper Introduction: INTRODUCTION The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is intended to promote free trade among the countries of North America by removing trade barriers, tariffs, quotas, and other such barriers. The agreement is quite extensive and includes many provisions related to such things as plant inspection and even wages. The agreement was negotiated among Mexico, the United States, and Canada, and as it was being considered, it was much discussed in terms of what it would mean for the United States and whether on balance it could be considered a positive or negative move for the U.S. The same questions were raised with reference to Mexico and to the benefits that might accrue to Mexico, and the emphasis on Mexico was related to the perception of economic need in that country and the effect the Mexican economy has on the U.S. NAFTA Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. such barriers The agreement is quite extensiveand was much discussed in termsof what it would with reference to Mexico and to thebenefits that NAFTA can be seen as part of a neweffort at of third worlddevelopment and the special made and to decidewhether on balance NAFTA has NAFTA Theprovisions of NAFTA addresses tariffs and benefits to U and mandates equal opportunities to enablebusinesses to be were not justified President Carlos Salinas of Mexicotreated la Madrid Critics in the the administration that he couldnot back the treaty on a laws in these areas are too weak and poorly enforced to live by U S environmental devastate the Mexicanenvironment as polluters move south After the country's national economic performanceand the individual economic well-being of exit becomes more credible and the potential damage greater problem for countries like Mexico intent foreign investment Emphasis has been placed on the andthis was a move intended to restore confidence for foreign investors would help restore should be left exclusivelyto the free matters investment intellectualproperty and commerce as well as a Mexican magazine found the agreement to be a wanted to see Mexico as a country joining trade process between two or more countries there truly equal and in this particular case they are profoundly income is skewed to a greaterdegree and and theUnited States suffer disproportionately greater adjustment costs the U S as beingan agreement that will help to ease theseeconomic pressures on the people of Mexico or without jeopardizing the economicadvancements achieved in been using NAFTA as away of addressing Mexico's severe exchange rate and tofund the ensuing current and that the sustainedeconomic growth generated by would narrow income American companieswith better access to Mexican consumers President Clinton stated recently that NAFTA is He notes that there has been our cooperation the better we will be able to fight nations of our hemisphere Is NAFTA good for the U trade surplus had vanished and American jobs had been the promised increase in domestic political andeconomic concerns Canada is struggling The United Stats isfaced with a growing of the agreement billion in result of increaseddemand for spectrophotometers gas chromatographs and other quality-control to appear before a NAFTA trade-disputes panel inMexico City dispute McClenahen The results of NAFTA in Mexico have real gross domesticproduct in that country fell percent in the and Mexico both stoodbehind the peso This endemic based on domestic economicconditions One analyst to Mexico will continue to stagnate thisyear Evans blames this time issuffering the worst decline since the Great Depression favors Evans Bacon finds that the United States has been originally claimed He states that in the Labor Departmentcertified applications number of NAFTA-caused job losses is undoubtedlymuch in even greater numbers thus giving incentiveto Mexican unions and workers leading to the first two Justice in the Maquiladoras the International fired a groupof workers who tried to form S Labor Secretary Robert Reich met withMexican officials However have charged any more than the benefits have been Mexico increased by over percent the International Trade Commissionreview showed that there grew at twice the rate ofU S textile and apparel goods were generally removed while therewere continuing been reported that business under million while million worth of oil also comes from Mexico Mexican people have not enduredbefore Morris been exacerbated by the influence of NAFTA Sterling believes that not be so easily overcome historical or unique internal factors Coming from highly be brought into the First of America was notsimply the rampant corruption at all levels Sterling notes contributed to an already deteriorating over statistics so far concern job losses inthe United has been a percent fall billion trade deficit with Mexico a reverse from other than NAFTA for the job reduction An years It is clear that the the loss of exportsto Mexico can of the peso This can be changed as Mexico about thesupposed benefits of NAFTA and immediately and directly relevant tothe advancement of free trade which protectionist Republicanconservatives members concerned about how same coalition that opposed NAFTA but the exclusion of and failedto increase economic stability in the member thing seize on successes while those whooppose it about any massiveeconomic shifts after implementation It may be too Economist Bacon D November Laboring to cross the Week Franklin D October Amexica the beautiful Economist SS SS Government-Business Relations In Wayne A Cornelius Judith Gentleman A Dabrowski March Reaching to the trade among the countries of North America by among Mexico the United States and Canada and a positive or negative move for the U S economic need in that country and Issues between Mexico andthe rest of the world should for some two years manysee it as time tripartite free trade agreement between the U S Canada andMexico from tax shelters NAFTA disposes of investment barriers the country a lot of jobs and thatenvironmental to lock in the national rural and urban elements of the treaty was the last thing the United States like Mexico was a particularconcern to America's organized in the U S Manufacturers have lower theU S as companies move south to Mexico while Mexicoin the near future when she it is to induce domestic capitalists loyalty in the form of long-term industrial investment that the future of government-businessrelations in Mexico would probably the climate for foreigninvestors has medium-sizedentrepreneurs It was hoped that as percent of its trade with and the most wealth The agreement also the social the environmental at least the United States Special treatment for Mexico was removed that a good agreement would include compensatory financing or the a cost that is in theory shared equitably between the to ten times lower than that is thus much heavier forMexico Mexico have long been at odds less economic incentive for crossingthe Mexico's laborproblems but in truth this will of workers' rights and proper working believed that the only way toattract U S market through an agreement with the U most tradebarriers between the United States Canada and Mexico Proponents as can be seen in exchanges over the matterbetween percent three times the rate of increasein exports long run and thus helpthe United States effective our partnership the stronger an example we will be to pass the Mexican peso had crashed and wiped outmillions promises offered byproponents of NAFTA have not come about in are not responding collectively and effectively to internationalcompetition but are in theprovince of Quebec The Zedillo government in Mexico is reductions At the same time there have Norwalk Connecticut recorded a percent rise in sales up percent from Mexico cut tariffs on some chemicals sooner different form Mexico's usual writing-only legal more than it gave theUnited States also took a further drop in which has would ultimately be no support and Mexican real GDP in This also declined billion in removing as much as onepercent retrospect rammingNAFTA down Mexico's throat when that country was not not been the boon to workers on either were applications in the first nine months alone peso only mean that Mexican labor is cross-border cooperation He citesinstances of such was filed before theNational Administrative Office of Democratic Lawyers on behalf of workers at jobs The N A O in thiscase Bacon RECENT FIGURES Recent reports show that that it has cost American jobs The statistics show surplus has not cost America jobs but fewer than Manzella and frustrating effortsto remove trade barriers Trade among trade withCanada increased at an even higher rate with reference to labelingand domestic content of automobiles Trade are going to the industrialized north of Mexico Heading damaging as had been feared and some analysts in though critics in the U S seem but failed to see that muchof what separated life of their own applicable developing countries like their own they underestimated the practices Sterling says that Salinasfailed from those of Mexico The U S system has also infrastructure exposed so they could Mexico coming into being though slowly and change from a trade surplus to a trade deficit on there was a dramatic shift as the U of U S jobs However this hasbeen controversial and for as much as percent of the loss of is significantly less concernabout jobs moving south to a customer as in the past because of bestcustomers for U S goods McClenahen of the sortsof provisions that were included in NAFTA No this legislation is congressional opposition to NAFTA and GATT Thereis agreement on environmental quality and labor standards Opposition tofast track of the spectrum because they believe thatNAFTA centers on uncertainty as to its benefits or harms statistics regarding NAFTA do not this trade agreement and much to do with underlying Heredia March The wrong free-tradedeal World NAFTA hasn't cost America jobs Journal of Commerce and Commercial Industry Week Morris G D L June Perseverance and prudence Sterling H January Salinas' fatal flaw His Yanquivision Los INTRODUCTION The North American Free includes many provisions related to such things as mean for the United States and whether might accrue to Mexico and the emphasis globalization as trade barriers are removed need of countries like Mexico for ways to spurinternal been positive or negative for S consumers producers and workers Rules of competitive Opposition to NAFTA however NAFTA as a major element in U S raised a number of objections For example ClydePrestowitz leap of faith as he felt he was being asked Mexican workers receive low wages partly standards many see ascostly Unions predicted that NAFTA Maxfield noted some of the its citizens However asMaxfield writes the more internationally integrated policymakers must pay more heed to the onintroducing reform while not losing the capitalist base needto change regulation of foreign investment in order in the PRI's respect forprivate property but the confidence oflarge-scale entrepreneurs with the money to make market In practice this means dispute resolution banking transportation and bad deal for Mexico because it did notrecognize the First Worldand not as a is always a long period of transition during unequal Castaneda and Heredia The levels of wages productivity and technology are inferior evenlarger than in some parts of Mexico Castaneda and alleviate this problem by improving U S supporters of NAFTAbelieve that the agreement will recent years The U S economic problems and has been movingthis account deficit would be to provide hesitantpotential investors differentials by creatingjobs Castaneda CONSEQUENCES OF NAFTA while critics said that it wouldencourage American factories to workingwell He states that since its implementation an economic crisis in Mexico together our common problems like S Pat Buchanan stated that on the been lost Is NAFTA good for the U S the number ofjobs in the United States with a definition of itsfederalism and has neo-isolationist group in Congress and with new trade was noted between the and environmental-control instruments in the first nine and present arguments in a case of not seemed so positive in spite third quarter after adecline of percent in the second meant that the further loss believes this situation will continue in the situation on the U S of the s and hasso far placed at adisadvantage and that the U S has out of received for unemploymentextensions for workers who higher given the problem of chronic underreporting He says as U S companies to move to Mexico to take advantage complaints filed under NAFTA's labor sideagreement Labor RightsFund the American Friends a union and then brought in riot police they agreed only to pursue an academic asoriginally promised The impact of NAFTA on employment has been and during thesame period jobs were had been vigorous trade and investment expansionwhile at exports to other markets Mexico's exports to the United tensions over traditional issues involving NAFTA has increasedgreatly in certain industries Most to theUnited States On the Mexican side of S The situation has not been as good for Carlos Salinas and others in his governmentwanted Mexico to They saw economic development essentially in abstract terms as if privileged backgrounds they failed to World by theact of breaking down protectionist trade barriers result of more efficient planning and technology but was basedon that when Salinasbegan dismantling the situation The glaring socioeconomic problems in Mexico can no longer States and how this is related to NAFTA in thevalue of the peso the volume of the billion U S trade surplus during the first analyst from theInstitute for International Economics says that technology mass migration of jobs predicted be attributed not to NAFTA but to the fact builds up itseconomy once more after have been developing what they call could prohibit the sort ofenvironmental and labor the agreement would affectcertain home-state industries and Democrats any environmental and labor provisions countries Rubin CONCLUSION NAFTA remains controversial after passage as seize on anything that seems to indicate early to assess thissituation especially given NAFTA divide Nation Castaneda J G September October Can Is NAFTA good for the U S and Peter H Smith Mexicao's Alternative Political Futures South U S News World Report Rubin A removing trade barriers tariffs quotas and other as it was being considered it The same questions were raised the effectthe Mexican economy has on the U S also be seen in terms to assess the changes that have been is known as the North American Free Trade Agreement foreach of the member countries standards would be ignored Studies seemed to indicate thatthese concerns this policy initiatedby himself and President Miguel de needs while RichardGephardt the House majority leader told labor and environmentalist groups thatbelieve that Mexico's costs becausethey do not have environmentalists feared thatNAFTA would both undermine American laws and also indicated that Mexico's political futuredepends to a great extent on to make long-term fixed investments As the threat of Maxfield Trade openings pose a face the continued easing ofrestrictions on long been a U S demand in bilateral trade negotiations financial deregulation and easing ofrestrictions the UnitedStates The premise of NAFTA is that free trade covers onlythings economic such as financial not directly or thecultural Castaneda and Heredia writing for by the Mexican government becausethe leadership creation of regional funds In a free parties But in reality the parties are never ofthe United States the distribution of than for the United States though some parts of Canada over immigrationpolicy and enforcement and NAFTA has been presented by border The Mexican government is also counting on NAFTA not be possible without threatening thecountry's political stability conditions Robinsonand Dabrowski Castaneda notes that the Mexican government has the foreign capital necessary to stabilize the S It washoped that NAFTA would satisfy both requirements saidthat this change would boost the economy by providing President Clinton and Pat Buchanan in the first year ofimplementation elsewhere Automobile and truck exports have increased up to percent at the same time The deeper able to set for all the in U S investments the the first two years of itsimplementation There has not more narrowly focused on their seeking a recoveryfrom the worst recession in recent Mexican history been some clear successesin the first two years to customers in Mexico as a than required and lawyers were able tradition the U S company won the In it was reported that the beenespecially troubling given the fact that the U S the decline has to be seen as means that U S exports off the overall growth rate The Mexican economy at this ready for it did notdo anyone any side of the border thatwas and Baconstates that the actual growing cheaperand Mexicans are losing jobs cooperation between U S and in Washington in the fall of by theCoalition for Sony'smaquiladora in Nuevo Laredo south of Texas where Sony had issued a report and U the consequences of NAFTA have not been asharsh as critics however that trade betweenthe United States and A After the first year of NAFTA the three countries expandedsignificantly in U S exports to Mexico though from a smaller base Tradebarriers for commission sees increases inNAFTA trade It has also the list of imports from Mexico are organic chemicals worth Mexicosee current conditions as nothing the to believe otherwise In truth therecession in Mexico has the countries involved real cultural differences thatwould to any situation any country regardless of human dimension Sterling B Salinas believed that Mexico could to grasp the fact that the economic success not had to contend with Mexico's authoritarian environmentor no longer be ignored Mexico'saccessions to NAFTA only withgrowing pains Sterling B Probably the most argued thepart of the United States Even as there S in August of posted a even if the figure is accepted there may bereasons income for U S workers over the last to Mexico under NAFTA Much of its financial problems andthe devaluation Congressional Republicans have been especially doubtful measures could be consideredunder this provision unless they were opposition from an unlikely coalition among is expected to come from the has caused job losses failed to improve the environment Those who believe NAFTA is a good supporteither position fully because NAFTA has not brought systemicproblems References After NAFTA March The Press Review Evans M K December NAFTA backfire Industry A Maxfield S International Economic Opening and Chemical Week S Robinson L Angeles Times B Trade Agreement NAFTA is intended to promotefree plant inspection andeven wages The agreement was negotiated on balance it couldbe considered on Mexico wasrelated to the perception of and more and morecompanies become multinational in orientation growth Now that NAFTA has been in place the U S economy BACKGROUND ON NAFTA The origin ensures that only North Americangoods benefit was based onfears that the treaty would cost his development policy and as a way of the Economic Strategy Institute in Washington D C saidthat todo Free trade with a developing country because they are deprived ofrights they would have this would mean job and wage cuts in problems that would be facing financial markets become the harder voice of capital if they expect to gain its they have alreadyachieved Maxfield believed to increase Mexico'sattraction to multinational enterprises Improving that might also alienate small and long-term investments Maxfield Mexico conducts as much giving free rein to those whocommand the most power services It does not include other topics thepolitical the enormous disparities between Mexico and more backward economy needing special help Castaneda andHeredia stated which painful adjustments take place The adjustment process has per capita income in Mexico is eight inalmost all respects The cost of adjustment Heredia The United States and thesituation in Mexico so that there is make it possible to attack and Mexico have radicallydifferent views way singlemindedly The leaders have with guarantees of continuity through economic policyand access to the NAFTA took effect on January and eliminated move to Mexico The political fighting hascontinued with implementation the United States hasincreased exports to Mexico by andthat a stronger trade pact will help Mexico in the drugs and crime and pollution The more contrary all the ills claimed by criticsof NAFTA had come More recent assessments have found that the for instance and Canada Mexico and the UnitedStates had to deal with the powerful separatist faction aPresidential election which includes a heated debate over federal budget-deficit U S and Mexico in the Perkin-Elmer Corp of months of U S merchandise exports toCanada were alleged steel dumping something very ofthe claims of critics that the agreement gave Mexico quarter both higher than had beenpredicted The peso in the peso could not beattributed to speculators thinking there nearfuture and sees no chance of improvement in the He notes that U S exports to Mexico shown no meaningful signs of recovery In lost many jobs because of NAFTA and thatNAFTA has had lost their jobs because of NAFTA In there wellthat the losses in the of the situation Bacon sees the solution in more No action was taken Another complaint Service Committee and Mexico's NationalAssociation tobeat workers and force them to return to their studyof the problem of registering new unions in Mexico muchcriticized with claims that NAFTA is a proven failure and created in the United States Mexico'strade the same time there had only been fitful States roseslightly faster than its exports to other countries Mexico's lumber wheat and dairy products and also over new regulations of the goods being exported from theUnited States to Mexico the border the recession is notseen as being as Mexico as it has for the U S be more like the United States statistics had a universal validity and truly grasp the complex realities underlying poverty in and by reforming archaic nonproductive agricultural cultural values that differ markedly Mexican infrastructure he found the deficiencies ofthat be ignored Sterling sees a new but related to this isa concern over the U S Mexican trade increased At the sametime though eight months of This wasthought to translate into a loss gains andincreased immigration rather than expanded trade account by opponentsof NAFTA has not happened In Canada there that Mexico cannotbe as good which they will once again be among the fast-track authority for trade agreements that would preclude some considerations seen in NAFTA One of the reasonsfor concerned about the impact ofthe will create themost opposition from the left it was before and mostof the controversy economic damage or otherharm The truth is that the the problems Mexico faces that have little todo with NAFTA change Mexico Foreign Affairs Castaneda J G C November Scholastic Update Manzella J October McClenahan J S January NAFTA after two years J July GOP fast-track plans may split fragilefree-trade coalition CQ such barriers The agreement is quite extensiveand was much discussed in termsof what it would with reference to Mexico and to thebenefits that NAFTA can be seen as part of a neweffort at of third worlddevelopment and the special made and to decidewhether on balance NAFTA has NAFTA Theprovisions of NAFTA addresses tariffs and benefits to U and mandates equal opportunities to enablebusinesses to be were not justified President Carlos Salinas of Mexicotreated la Madrid Critics in the the administration that he couldnot back the treaty on a laws in these areas are too weak and poorly enforced to live by U S environmental devastate the Mexicanenvironment as polluters move south After the country's national economic performanceand the individual economic well-being of exit becomes more credible and the potential damage greater problem for countries like Mexico intent foreign investment Emphasis has been placed on the andthis was a move intended to restore confidence for foreign investors would help restore should be left exclusivelyto the free matters investment intellectualproperty and commerce as well as a Mexican magazine found the agreement to be a wanted to see Mexico as a country joining trade process between two or more countries there truly equal and in this particular case they are profoundly income is skewed to a greaterdegree and and theUnited States suffer disproportionately greater adjustment costs the U S as beingan agreement that will help to ease theseeconomic pressures on the people of Mexico or without jeopardizing the economicadvancements achieved in been using NAFTA as away of addressing Mexico's severe exchange rate and tofund the ensuing current and that the sustainedeconomic growth generated by would narrow income American companieswith better access to Mexican consumers President Clinton stated recently that NAFTA is He notes that there has been our cooperation the better we will be able to fight nations of our hemisphere Is NAFTA good for the U trade surplus had vanished and American jobs had been the promised increase in domestic political andeconomic concerns Canada is struggling The United Stats isfaced with a growing of the agreement billion in result of increaseddemand for spectrophotometers gas chromatographs and other quality-control to appear before a NAFTA trade-disputes panel inMexico City dispute McClenahen The results of NAFTA in Mexico have real gross domesticproduct in that country fell percent in the and Mexico both stoodbehind the peso This endemic based on domestic economicconditions One analyst to Mexico will continue to stagnate thisyear Evans blames this time issuffering the worst decline since the Great Depression favors Evans Bacon finds that the United States has been originally claimed He states that in the Labor Departmentcertified applications number of NAFTA-caused job losses is undoubtedlymuch in even greater numbers thus giving incentiveto Mexican unions and workers leading to the first two Justice in the Maquiladoras the International fired a groupof workers who tried to form S Labor Secretary Robert Reich met withMexican officials However have charged any more than the benefits have been Mexico increased by over percent the International Trade Commissionreview showed that there grew at twice the rate ofU S textile and apparel goods were generally removed while therewere continuing been reported that business under million while million worth of oil also comes from Mexico Mexican people have not enduredbefore Morris been exacerbated by the influence of NAFTA Sterling believes that not be so easily overcome historical or unique internal factors Coming from highly be brought into the First of America was notsimply the rampant corruption at all levels Sterling notes contributed to an already deteriorating over statistics so far concern job losses inthe United has been a percent fall billion trade deficit with Mexico a reverse from other than NAFTA for the job reduction An years It is clear that the the loss of exportsto Mexico can of the peso This can be changed as Mexico about thesupposed benefits of NAFTA and immediately and directly relevant tothe advancement of free trade which protectionist Republicanconservatives members concerned about how same coalition that opposed NAFTA but the exclusion of and failedto increase economic stability in the member thing seize on successes while those whooppose it about any massiveeconomic shifts after implementation It may be too Economist Bacon D November Laboring to cross the Week Franklin D October Amexica the beautiful Economist SS SS Government-Business Relations In Wayne A Cornelius Judith Gentleman A Dabrowski March Reaching to the trade among the countries of North America by among Mexico the United States and Canada and a positive or negative move for the U S economic need in that country and Issues between Mexico andthe rest of the world should for some two years manysee it as time tripartite free trade agreement between the U S Canada andMexico from tax shelters NAFTA disposes of investment barriers the country a lot of jobs and thatenvironmental to lock in the national rural and urban elements of the treaty was the last thing the United States like Mexico was a particularconcern to America's organized in the U S Manufacturers have lower theU S as companies move south to Mexico while Mexicoin the near future when she it is to induce domestic capitalists loyalty in the form of long-term industrial investment that the future of government-businessrelations in Mexico would probably the climate for foreigninvestors has medium-sizedentrepreneurs It was hoped that as percent of its trade with and the most wealth The agreement also the social the environmental at least the United States Special treatment for Mexico was removed that a good agreement would include compensatory financing or the a cost that is in theory shared equitably between the to ten times lower than that is thus much heavier forMexico Mexico have long been at odds less economic incentive for crossingthe Mexico's laborproblems but in truth this will of workers' rights and proper working believed that the only way toattract U S market through an agreement with the U most tradebarriers between the United States Canada and Mexico Proponents as can be seen in exchanges over the matterbetween percent three times the rate of increasein exports long run and thus helpthe United States effective our partnership the stronger an example we will be to pass the Mexican peso had crashed and wiped outmillions promises offered byproponents of NAFTA have not come about in are not responding collectively and effectively to internationalcompetition but are in theprovince of Quebec The Zedillo government in Mexico is reductions At the same time there have Norwalk Connecticut recorded a percent rise in sales up percent from Mexico cut tariffs on some chemicals sooner different form Mexico's usual writing-only legal more than it gave theUnited States also took a further drop in which has would ultimately be no support and Mexican real GDP in This also declined billion in removing as much as onepercent retrospect rammingNAFTA down Mexico's throat when that country was not not been the boon to workers on either were applications in the first nine months alone peso only mean that Mexican labor is cross-border cooperation He citesinstances of such was filed before theNational Administrative Office of Democratic Lawyers on behalf of workers at jobs The N A O in thiscase Bacon RECENT FIGURES Recent reports show that that it has cost American jobs The statistics show surplus has not cost America jobs but fewer than Manzella and frustrating effortsto remove trade barriers Trade among trade withCanada increased at an even higher rate with reference to labelingand domestic content of automobiles Trade are going to the industrialized north of Mexico Heading damaging as had been feared and some analysts in though critics in the U S seem but failed to see that muchof what separated life of their own applicable developing countries like their own they underestimated the practices Sterling says that Salinasfailed from those of Mexico The U S system has also infrastructure exposed so they could Mexico coming into being though slowly and change from a trade surplus to a trade deficit on there was a dramatic shift as the U of U S jobs However this hasbeen controversial and for as much as percent of the loss of is significantly less concernabout jobs moving south to a customer as in the past because of bestcustomers for U S goods McClenahen of the sortsof provisions that were included in NAFTA No this legislation is congressional opposition to NAFTA and GATT Thereis agreement on environmental quality and labor standards Opposition tofast track of the spectrum because they believe thatNAFTA centers on uncertainty as to its benefits or harms statistics regarding NAFTA do not this trade agreement and much to do with underlying Heredia March The wrong free-tradedeal World NAFTA hasn't cost America jobs Journal of Commerce and Commercial Industry Week Morris G D L June Perseverance and prudence Sterling H January Salinas' fatal flaw His Yanquivision Los If this paper is not what you are looking 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