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'''NAFTA''', or the '''N'''orth '''A'''merican '''F'''ree '''T'''rade '''A'''greement is a free trade pact among the [[United States]], [[Mexico]] and [[Canada]]; it began in 1994 and continues to the present. It created the world's biggest free-trade area and required the elimination of every trade barrier between the signers for fifteen years. It also included agreements on the environment and labor. This gave Canadian and U.S. companies access to Mexican markets.

'''NAFTA''', or the '''N'''orth '''A'''merican '''F'''ree '''T'''rade '''A'''greement is a free trade pact among the [[United States]], [[Mexico]] and [[Canada]], which was never ratified as a [[treaty]] by the [[U.S. Senate]].  Instead, it was passed merely with a simple majority of the Democratic-controlled [[Congress]] in 1993, and signed into law by the Democratic President [[Bill Clinton]]. It can be repealed or modified by any other federal law.

 

NAFTA subjected the United States to the jurisdiction of a foreign tribunal for resolving disputes arising under the "free trade" zone created by the law, which is the world's biggest free-trade area.  It requires the elimination of every trade barrier between the signers for fifteen years, and includes agreements on the environment and labor. This gave Mexico access to U.S. and Canadian markets, and vice-versa.

 

Its most contentious consequence in 2011 is whether trucks from Mexico will have full access to American highways.

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