A North American Free Trade Agreement: The Strategic Implications for CanadaIRPP, 1990 - 142 من الصفحات From the back cover: The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement came into effect on January 1, 1989,...Mexico has now indicated that it is interested in negotiating a similar free-trade agreement with the United States. This challenge from Mexico raises profound questions for Canada. Should Canada seek a seat at the table? Can Canada afford to let the United States and Mexico decide issues that may have direct consequences on Canadian trade and investment? Is it possible to trilateralize the Canada-U.S. FTA by including Mexico? In this timely and provocative study, Michael Hart answers some of these questions and concludes that it would be prudent for Canada to seek a seat at the table from the outset and convince the United States and Mexico to enter into a tripartite arrangement based on the existing FTA. He argues that the convergence in trade and investment policy, practice and interests in the three countries over the past ten years has made the negotiation of such an agreement both feasible and desirable. |
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The Global Context | 11 |
The Distribution of US Merchandise Imports | 12 |
The North American Trade Regime | 31 |
North American Trade and Investment Patterns | 59 |
Mexican Trade in Agriculture with Canada and | 114 |
Mexican Indebtedness to Canadian Banks | 124 |
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