NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT - NAFTA
It was implemented on January 1, 1994. A regulation that decreased and eventually removed tariffs to encourage economic activity between the U.S., Mexico and Canada. NAFTA is credited with making it easier for Americans to purchase Canadian and Mexican goods, increasing the wages of workers slightly in all three countries, increasing manufacturing and other jobs for U.S. workers, and intensely increasing trade between the three nations, from $337 billion in 1993 to $1.182 trillion in 2011.
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