Overview of NAFTA - North America Free Trade Agreement

NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement. This is an agreement to gradually remove tariffs and other trade barriers on many goods produced and sold in North America. NAFTA went into effect in Canada, Mexico, and the United States on January 1, 1994. NAFTA creates the world's second largest free-trade zone. It brings together over 350 million consumers in Canada, Mexico, and the United States in an open market system.

• Environment
• • ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN MEXICO UNDER NAFTA
  • NAFTA and Environment
• Women and Family
• • NAFTA, CAFTA, What Comes AFTA?
  • Women Workers in the NAFTA Food Chain
• Global concerns
• • Happily Ever NAFTA?
  • Trinational Elites Map North American Future in "NAFTA Plus"
• Economy
• • The High Price of 'Free' Trade
  • NAFTA at Ten: Who Heard the Giant Sucking Sound?