Standard Contracts
WILLIAM EASTERLY NORBER T FIESSNafta • September 8th, 2022
T.D. 72–262, 37 FR 20318, Sept. 29, 1972, asNafta • February 11th, 2022
NAFTA - the North American Free Trade Agreement - took effect on the 1 st ofNafta • July 20th, 2020
January, 1994, linking the United States, Canada and Mexico in the world’s largest free trade zone with a population of more than three hundred sixty million. The main objective of NAFTA was to enable the free flow of goods and services by re moving or substantially reducing taxes and tariffs. The preamble of the agreement states that the governments of the countries “resolved to strengthen the special bonds of friendship and cooperation among their nations”. From the very beginning of the negotiations it was obvious that this “cooperation among nations” could not be achieved without respect for each other.1
Labor under the “New NAFTA,” the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Agreement MAY/JUNE 2019Nafta • November 16th, 2019
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA CANADIAN VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATIONNafta • October 1st, 2017
✓ For over a century these companies have contributed to the Canadian economy, employing hundreds of thousands of workers and producing millions of vehicles.
NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (NAFTA) REGION (*)Nafta • May 8th, 2015
COUNTRY/PORT REVENUE PASSENGERS (**) CRUISE SHIP CALLS (STATE OR PROVINCE) 2014 2013 2014 2013 CANADA [01] Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (PEI) 85,092 92,865 64 68 [02] Halifax, Nova Scotia (NS) 217,305 252,121 134 134 [03] Montreal, Québec (QU) 56,466 55,611 52 47 [04] Nanaimo, British Columbia (BC) 5,299 12,382 4 8 [05] Port Saguenay, Québec (QU) 29,143 20,332 32 23 [06] Prince Rupert, British Columbia (BC) 3,394 4,752 11 10 [07] Quebec, British Columbia (BC) 134,601 122,703 109 103 [08] Saint John, New Brunswick (NB) 106,501 166,616 52 64 [09] Sept-Iles, Québec (QU) 5,797 2,370 9 3 [10] Sydney, Nova Scotia (NS) 82,599 99,372 82 69 [11] Trois-Rivières, Québec (QU) 1,796 0 3 0 [12] Toronto, Ontario (ON) 2,986 604 6 3 [13] Metro Vancouver, British Columbia (BC) 812,095 812,995 243 236 [14] Victoria, British Columbia (BC) 467,550 481,693 204 203 MEXICO [01] Acapulco, Guerrero (GRO) 7,438 7,356 8 9 [02] Cabo San Lucas, Baja California South (BCS) 259,580 185,586 124 95 [03] Cozu
Daniel CooperNafta • October 8th, 2021
Designed to integrate the economies of Mexico, the United States, and Canada by eliminating regulations that hindered the cross-border mobility of capital, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect on January 1st, 1994. For Mexico, the treaty would crown the previous six years of President Carlos Salinas’ radical market reforms which, building on those of his predecessor Miguel de la Madrid, had fundamentally restructured the country’s economy through privatizations and the deregulation of key industries. Buoyed already by broad public support, Salinas’ rightwing legislation was nevertheless injected with a crucial dose of cultural legitimation when Mexico’s most celebrated writer, the Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, enthusiastically endorsed it in the days leading up to its enactment. In a late December 1993 interview in The New Yorker, Paz adds with his poet’s voice a contemplative and even epic tenor to the official optimism surrounding the technocratic treaty:
NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT IN THE MATTER OF MAGNESIUM FROM CANADA (INJURY) FULL SUNSET REVIEW OF ANTIDUMPING DUTY AND COUNTERVAILING DUTY ORDERSNafta • December 17th, 2008
* Chun Hung Lin, Associate Professor, Graduate Institution of Financial & Economic Law, Feng Chia University; Russ C. Lee, & Chung-Guang Chen, LL.M. Student, Feng Chia University.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been in effect since January 1, 1994. NAFTA provides for duty free treatment on “a good” that originates or is deemed to originate in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico - or is a product created by...Nafta • January 22nd, 2020
In order to qualify for preferential treatment under NAFTA, the goods must qualify as “originating goods”. There are essentially four ways for goods to qualify as originating goods. (HTS General Note 12)
NAFTA’s Double Standard:Nafta • October 8th, 2020
The agreement contains 14 pages of fine print spelling out detailed standards for protecting video and cassette recordings, films, literary and artistic works, industrial property, new varieties of plants, copyrights, trademarks, patents, satellite signals, semiconductor designs, geographical indicators, industrial designs and trade secrets.
