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NAFTA's main objectives, according to the official three-nation summary of the agreement, are to "eliminate barriers to trade, promote conditions of fair competition, increase investment opportunities, provide adequate protection for intellectual property rights, establish effective procedures for the implementation...
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www.ciesin.org/TG/PI/TRADE/nafta.html
www.ciesin.org/TG/PI/TRADE/nafta.html
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The main objective of NAFTA was to eliminate barriers to trade and investment between the United States, Mexico and Canada. Tariffs, quotas and subsidies are the most common barriers to trade.
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www.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ496/lence/spring2004/N...
www.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ496/lence/spring2004/NAFTA.pdf
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Arguments and opinions aside, NAFTA was created in order to change the member nations' economies for the better. That is its main objective. If any of the member nations didn't have at least some belief that NAFTA would benefit them, then they wouldn't, or shouldn't, have approved it.
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www.ilovelanguages.com/tyler/nonfiction/nafta2.html
www.ilovelanguages.com/tyler/nonfiction/nafta2.html
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The main objective of NAFTA was to remove all trade barriers and investment obstacles among the three countries over a fifteen-year period.
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countrystudies.us/mexico/93.htm
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It is clear that during NAFTA's first five years, the agreement's main objective—of increasing trade among the United States, Mexico and Canada—was met since trilateral trade was substantially higher in 1998 than in 1993 before the start of the agreement.
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www.dallasfed.org/research/busfront/bus9902.html
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The American elites, in whose sole interest NAFTA was negotiated, allowed their domestic corn farmers to keep their subsidies (you might view this as hypocritical, as the removal of subsidies was the stated main objective of NAFTA, but you mightn’t be surprised).
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www.converge.org.nz/watchdog/16/08.htm
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The main objective of NAFTA was to provide a framework for managing the process of economic integration that was already in progress between the three countries.
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globalization.icaap.org/content/v2.1/04_denman.html
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hoffman...
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dovnar.com/zfzni/nafta.php
dovnar.com/zfzni/nafta.php
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North American Free Trade Agreement ... PART ONE: GENERAL PART ... The Parties to this Agreement, consistent with Article XXIV of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, hereby establish a free trade area.
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www.sice.oas.org/trade/nafta/CHAP-01.ASP
www.sice.oas.org/trade/nafta/CHAP-01.ASP
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