North American Free Trade Agreement. Federally financed program providing benefits to certain American workers who are unemployed due to trade with Canada or Mexico. Individuals receiving benefits under this program must be enrolled in an approved training course.
North American Free Trade Area. Includes Mexico, the United States and Canada. First part came into effect in 1994, although various sectors are seeing import tariffs gradually lifted or reduced.
orth merican ree Tr ade greement. Effective Jan. 1, 1994, it seeks to establish tariff-free trade & remove most cross-border investment barriers among Canada, US & Mexico by 2005. Contains provisions to add more members. Its benefits are debateable.
North American FreeTrade Agreement Act
North American Free Trade Association
North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement
North American Free Trade Agreement. An agreement reached by the United States, Canada and Mexico that instituted a schedule for the phasing out of tariffs and eliminated a variety of fees and other hindrances to encourage free trade between the three North American countries.
North American Free Trade Agreement. In June 1991 the United States, Canada and Mexico initiated negotiation of a comprehensive free trade agreement aimed at: eliminating over a mutually agreed upon time period all tariffs on trade between the three countries; reducing impediments to trade in services; removing most restrictions on foreign investment among the signatory countries; ensuring adequate intellectual property protection. The negotiations were concluded in August 1992, and the draft text is structured along the lines of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement. The Clinton administration negotiated supplemental agreements on labor and environmental issues, and Congress approved the whole package of NAFTA agreements in November 1993. President Clinton signed the legislation into law in December. NAFTA went into effect January 1, 1994. It is being viewed as a testing ground for possible future agreements to be negotiated under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative. See also: Common External Tariff, Customs Union, Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, Free Trade Area Agreement, General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade, U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, U.S.-Canada Trade Commission
North American Free Trade Agreement. An agreement with the purpose of extending and improving trade between Mexico, USA and Canada.
North American Free Trade Agreement. A regional trade pact among the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
A trade agreement between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico established to create jobs and raise living standards in North America.
North American Free Trade Agreement - signed in 1995 by Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
The North American Free Trade Agreement, between Canada, Mexico, and the United States, went into effect in 1994 and created the largest free trade zone in the world. NAFTA promised to increase the competitiveness of the region in relation to the rest of the world and increase jobs and prosperity in all three nations, but the evidence points to the contrary.
A free trade agreement comprising the U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico.
North American Free Trade Agreement. An unprecedented trade and investment agreement with Canada and Mexico that furthered corporate plans to integrate the three economies at the expense of jobs, wages, public health, food safety, the environment, highway safety and labor standards. For more information see: http://www.citizen.org/trade/nafta
North American Free Trade Agreement. A multilateral agreement negotiated by the United States, Canada and Mexico that sets forth agreements to lower and/or eliminate unfair trade barriers that affect the trade of goods and services between the three countries. NAFTA entered into force on January 1, 1994. The agriculture portion of NAFTA effectively is three bilateral agreements; U.S./Mexico, Mexico/Canada, and U.S./Canada. The U.S.-Canada agricultural agreement in NAFTA was negotiated previously as part of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement.
North American Free Trade Agreement. An agreement that creates a single unified market of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
North American Free Trade Agreement. A free trade area among the U.S., Canada, and Mexico signed in 1992.
An agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico that reduces governmental intervention in trade and investment between these countries.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was implemented among Canada, Mexico and the United States in 1994. Among other provisions, it specified a gradual reduction in trade barriers on a wide range of goods and services.
North American Free Trade Agreement. An agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the US, that started in 1994. The agreement established all of North America as a free-trade zone.
North American Free Trade Agreement. Trade agreement between US, Canada and Mexico. Trade & Economy
Adopted in 1993, NAFTA reduces trade restrictions among the three member countries of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, facilitating the movement of capital to Mexico and the movement of commodities to Canada and the United States.
Designed to reduce impediments to trade and investment between Canada and the United States and Mexico. NAFTA drastically limits the ability of governments to regulate corporate behavior. Came into effect January 1, 1994.
North American Free Trade Agreement. The agreement to form a free trade area among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The agreement expanded the US-Canada Free Trade Agreement and went into effect January 1, 1994.
Acronym for " North American Free Trade Agreement" on http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/am00635e.html.
North American Free Trade Agreement. a comprehensive trade agreement between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico that came into effect in 1994. Under this trade arrangement, thousands of tariffs, quotas and import licences are to be removed by the year 2009. These negotiated changes are designed to increase the partner nations’ investment capabilities, as well as their ability to import and export goods and services. Eventually, NAFTA may be expanded to create a trade agreement spanning all the Americas.
The North American Free Trade Agreement was signed by leaders of the United States, Canada, and Mexico in December 1992; a 2,000 page publication that will phase out tariffs (import duties) among the three countries over the next 15 years.
North American Free Trade Agreement. agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada to gradually eliminate most barriers to trade and investment among these countries and to follow specified agreements to protect workers and the environment
North American Free Trade Agreement, involving Canada, the United States and Mexico. Implemented January 1, 1994. (ALENA : Accord de libre-Échange nord-amÉricain)
the North American Free Trade Agreement, a multilateral trade treaty signed by The US, Canada and Mexico in 1994. This was the first time in history that a free trade agreement was signed between a first world country (United States) and a third world country (Mexico). The relationship resembled that between an industrial state and a colony. Chile has since joined NAFTA.
North America Free Trade Agreement
Free trade zone between the United States, Canada and Mexico; established in the North American Free Trade Agreement. This economic region is one of BASF's four business regions.
North American Free Trade Agreement. A trade agreement among the United States, Canada, and Mexico was championed by the Bush administration but opposed by those fearing the loss of manufacturing jobs to Mexico and the erosion of environmental safeguards.
Signed in 1992, and ratified in 1994, by the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It called for the gradual elimination of tariffs and certain other trade barriers between the three nations.
North American Free Trade Agreement. opened trade among three countries: the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
North American Free Trade Agreement. A controversial multilateral trade agreement, signed in 1993, among the United States, Canada and Mexico.
North American Free Trade Agreement; a trade agreement ending trade restrictions between the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
North American Free Trade Agreement. The agreement can be found at http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/nafta-alena/over-en.asp.
North American Free Trade Agreement. A free trade agreement, implemented January 1, 1994, between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
North American Free Trade Agreement. An agreement between Canada, United States and Mexico seeking to increase trade between the three countries.
North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA is a free trade agreement that comprises Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, exceeding 360 million consumers and with a combined output of $6 trillion.
North American Free Trade Agreement. A free trade agreement dating from 1994 involving Canada, Mexico and the United States of America.
North American Free Trade Agreement. Agreement creating a free trade area among the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with a total population of more than 380 million and a combined GDP of U.S. $7.5 trillion. NAFTA went into effect on January 1, 1994.
North American Free Trade Agreement, involving Canada, the United States and Mexico. Entered into force on January 1, 1994.
North American Free Trade Area, a free trade agreement that exists between the US, Canada and Mexico.
North American Free Trade Agreement. Implemented in 1994 and designed to eliminate all tariffs on goods produced and traded between Canada, Mexico and the United States, providing for a totally free trade area by 2009. p. 92
North American Free Trade Agreement. An agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico that allows for freer trade between the three countries.
The North American Free Trade Agreement agreed to by the U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico. NAFTA eliminates certain tariffs, promotes market access, and facilitates customs administration. It exceeds 360 million consumers and a combined output of $6 trillion--20 % larger than the European Community.
Abbreviation for the "North American Free Trade Agreement." A free trade agreement, implemented 1/1/94, between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.
North American Free Trade Agreement. A trilateral agreement signed by Canada, the United States, and Mexico and implemented on January 1, 1994. As of January 1, 1998, the rate of duty for all qualifying goods under the United States Tariff was reduced to 0%. Tariffs with Mexico continue to be reduced.
North American Free Trade Agreement. Trade and investment agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S, enacted in 1994. NAFTA's proponents promised the pact would create new benefits and gains in each country. The promised benefits of 200,000 new U.S. jobs from NAFTA per year, higher wages in Mexico and a growing U.S. trade surplus with Mexico, environmental clean-up and improved health along the border have failed to materialize. Instead, under NAFTA, conditions not only have not improved, they have deteriorated in many areas.
See North American Free Trade Agreement. Français: NAFTA Español: NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement. The free trade area agreement which came into force in 1994 between Canada, the United States and Mexico. Français: Accord de libre échange commercial d’Amérique du Nord Español: Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLC)
North American Free Trade Area: consisting of U.S., Canada and Mexico NAICS North American Industry Classification System U.S. Census Bureau. www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html
North American Free Trade Agreement, signed in 1994 , between the Government of Canada, the Government of the United Mexican States, and the Government of the United States of America.
North American Free Trade Agreement. A free trade agreement between the US, Canada, Mexico and Chile
North American Free Trade Agreement. Agreement that created an essentially free trade zone among Mexico, Canada, and the United States, in hopes of encouraging economic growth in all three nations; after difficult negotiations, went into effect January 1, 1994. (p. 937)
North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA is an agreement signed in 1994 between the United States, Canada, and Mexico to virtually eliminate all barriers to international trade between them in 15 years.
North America Free Trade Agreements
North American Free Trade Agreement (Thanks to Felipe Barousse Boué, piensa.com)
North American Free Trade Agreement. An agreement among the United States, Canada, and Mexico to promote economic prosperity by reducing trade barriers.