Research Guides: International Trade Law: NAFTA

NAFTA

NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)

The purpose of NAFTA was to include Mexico in the liberalization of trade regulations that already exist between the United States and Canada. The agreement entered into force on January 1, 1994.

1. Sources for the text of NAFTA
  - NAFTA Text: Including Supplemental Agreements: Final Version. (1994.) Reserve KDZ 945 .A41992 A2 1994x
  - NAFTA Supplemental Agreements US-DOCS PrEx9.12
  - 32 International Legal Materials 289 (1993). Per. I577
  - 32 International Legal Materials 1480 (1993). Per. I577 (environmental side agreement)
  - 32 International Legal Materials 1499 (1993). Per. I577 (labor side agreement)
  - Trade and Related Agreements Database (TARA) The Trade Compliance Center of the International Trade Administration. Contains text of, and information about, agreements between the United States and its trading partners.
  - NAFTA Secretariat
2. Implementing Legislation

North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, Pub. L. No. 103-182, 107 Stat. 2057 (1993), 19 USC §§ 3301 et. seq. For complete classification of this Act, see "Short Title" note in the US Code. KF 62 1994 .A2 1994

Sources for Commentary and Background Information on NAFTA
Ralph H. Folsom, NAFTA, Free Trade, and Foreign Investment in the Americas in a Nutshell (2014) Reserve KDZ944 .F653x 2014

Leslie Alan Glick, Understanding the North American Free Trade Agreement: Legal and Business Consequences of NAFTA (3d ed., 2010). Law Library KDZ944.A4 1992 G58 2010
- MNCAT searches:

s = canada treaties

s = free trade--north america

s = north america--commerce

s = north america--commercial policy

s = north america--economic integrations

s = Canada. Treaties, etc. 1992 Oct. 7

k = NAFTA

k = mexico and free trade

United States - Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA)

This agreement was signed by President Reagan and Prime Minister Mulroney on January 2, 1988 and, after implementing legislation was enacted in the United States and Canada, the Agreement entered into force on January 1, 1989. Its main purpose was to eliminate all tariffs on trade between the U.S. and Canada by January 1, 1998. The FTA was incorporated into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on January 1, 1994.

1. Sources for the text of FTA
  - 27 International Legal Materials 293 (1988). Per. I577
  - U.S. Canada Free Trade Agreement: The Complete Resource Guide, Washington, D.C.: BNA, 1988. 3 vols. [KF6668 .C3 U83x 1988]
  - LexisNexis (Select International Trade Law; Basic Documents of International Economic Law)
  - WESTLAW (IEL)
  - Trade and Related Agreements Database (TARA): The Trade Compliance Center of the International Trade Administration. Contains text of, and information about, agreements between the United States and its trading partners.
2. Implementing Legislation

United States - Canada Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1988, Pub. L. No. 100-449, 102 Stat. 1851 (1988), 19 USC § 2112 note. See the code for amendments [KF 62 1994 .A2 1994].

- MNCAT searches:

s = Free Trade--Canada

s = Free Trade--United States

s = Tariff--Canada

s = Tariff--United States

s = Tariff--Law and Legislation--United States

s = Tariff--Law and Legislation--Canada

s = Canada--Commerce--United States

s = Canada--Commercial policy

s = United States--Commerce--Canada

k = free trade agreement

k = Canada and United States and free trade