Nafta in Transition

Since the idea of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) firstentered the broader public consciousness in the early 1990s, there has beena remarkable reorientation within business, academic, and political circles inan effort to consider and better understand the nature of the North Americanrelationship. The 1988 free trade agreement between Canada and the UnitedStates evoked intense debate and soul searching within Canada and com-paratively little interest among Americans; but that situation changed as thehorizons broadened to include Mexico and likely extension into othercountries of Latin America, beginning with Chile. By the early 1990s, Amer-icans, along with Mexicans and Canadians, had fully entered into the dia-logue. Remarkably, although perhaps not surprisingly, the nature of theissues raised, anxieties expressed, and ambitions to be realized through acloser trilateral relationship articulated within one country have resonated inthe others. Although the alliances of foes and advocates have varied in thethree countries, there have also been remarkable similarities. Canadians andMexicans have tended to be more directly engaged in a debate over modelsof development and strategies of dealing with their common neighbour thanhave Americans

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• A Free Trade Area with Mexico

  Open Access•Alan L Madian•The Annals of the American…•1993

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