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Conceived in an era of rapid post-Cold War economic liberalization, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), signed in 1994, brought together Canada, Mexico and the United States with the aim of creating a regional trade bloc that eliminated the friction and costs of trade between the three nations. Without an overarching institutional framework, NAFTA never sought to attain the levels of integration achieved by the European Union - for many it was a missed opportunity - and never quite fulfilled its potential as a single market. And under Trump's administration a trilateral trade agreement has become increasingly precarious. This book provides an overview of NAFTA and its successor the USCMA, explaining the theory behind the politics and economics of trade in North America. It offers an accessible and concise analysis of the key provisions, shortcomings and past revision efforts of the governments involved. At a time of increasing protectionism and heightened awareness of trading relationships, the book highlights the lessons to be learnt from the fraught history of one of the largest trade blocs in the world.

Free trade --- North American Free Trade Agreement --- NAFTA --- Accord de libre-échange nord-américain --- ALENA --- Acordo Norte-Americano de Livre Comércio --- Tratado de Libre Comercio --- T.L.C. --- TLC --- Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte --- Tratado de Libre Comercio en América del Norte --- TLCAN --- Tratado de Libre Comercio de Norteamérica --- Tratado Trilateral de Libre Comercio --- TTLC --- Hokubei Jiyū Bōeki Kyōtei --- United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement --- Tariff --- Foreign trade regulation --- Law and legislation

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This book provides a multinational perspective on international investment law. In it, distinguished academics and practitioners provide a critical and comprehensive understanding of issues in a field which has grown exponentially in its importance particularly over the last decade, focusing on the European Union, Australia, North America, Asia, and China.

Investments, Foreign (International law) --- Investments, Foreign --- Law and legislation. --- Canada. --- International investment law --- Investment law, International --- International law --- Mexico. --- United States. --- North American Free Trade Agreement --- NAFTA --- Tratado Trilateral de Libre Comercio --- TTLC --- Tratado de Libre Comercio en América del Norte --- TLCAN --- Tratado de Libre Comercio de Norteamérica --- Hokubei Jiyū Bōeki Kyōtei --- Acordo Norte-Americano de Livre Comércio --- T.L.C. --- TLC --- Accord de libre-échange nord-américain --- ALENA --- Tratado de Libre Comercio --- Agreement between Canada, the United States of America, and the United Mexican States --- Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte --- United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement

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Many existing theories of economic liberalization fail to account for Mexico's experiences. Why has the Mexican government risked alienating its primary constituencies by pursuing trade opening and joining NAFTA? Big Business, the State, and Free Trade develops a general explanation of trade policy coalition politics and uses it to explain the opening of Mexico's economy. It emphasizes the role of business and state actors in constructing competing trade policy coalitions. The book traces the formation and relative strength of a protectionist and a free trade coalition across a series of policy episodes from the 1970s to the 1980s. It pays particular attention to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which consolidated a strong free trade coalition between big business and state elites. The conditions that strengthened the free trade coalition have also contributed to higher levels of political and economic instability since 1994. Coalition politics is likely to become more important as Mexico's political system democratizes.

Business and politics --- Free trade --- Business --- Politics and business --- Politics, Practical --- Political business cycles --- Political aspects --- North American Free Trade Agreement --- NAFTA --- Tratado Trilateral de Libre Comercio --- TTLC --- Tratado de Libre Comercio en América del Norte --- TLCAN --- Tratado de Libre Comercio de Norteamérica --- Hokubei Jiyū Bōeki Kyōtei --- Acordo Norte-Americano de Livre Comércio --- T.L.C. --- TLC --- Accord de libre-échange nord-américain --- ALENA --- Tratado de Libre Comercio --- Agreement between Canada, the United States of America, and the United Mexican States --- Mexico --- Commercial policy. --- Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte --- United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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International negotiations have become an important feature of the world trading system, but very few scholars have attempted to analyse this process. Using case studies in four areas - culture, textiles and apparel, autos, and pharmaceuticals - negotiated in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Maryse Robert uses a theoretical framework to help explain the outcome of such negotiations in terms of structure and process that. The structure of negotiations relates to states' objectives, outcomes, resources (in industry and in government), and issue-specific power. Process involves state's behaviour as expressed by its tactics during negotiation. Among the questions the author raises are: How are winning and losing defined in a given issue area? What are a state's resources as it enters a trade negotiation? Are all resources equally important? Is the utility of some tactics linked to certain resources? The key message of the book is that it is the right mix of resources and tactics that determines the outcome of negotiation. Very few scholars have attempted to analyse trade negotiations. Using case studies in four areas - culture, textiles and apparel, autos and pharmaceuticals - Robert proposes a theoretical framework to help explain the outcome of a negotiation in the field of international trade. She argues that this outcome has two characteristics: structure and process. The former is constituted of the resources a state brings to the table in a given issue area; the latter refers to the state's behaviour as expressed by its tactics during negotiation. The key message of the book is that it is the right mix of resources and tactics that determines the outcome.

Free trade --- Canada. --- Canada --- Commercial policy. --- North American Free Trade Agreement --- E-books --- NAFTA --- Tratado Trilateral de Libre Comercio --- TTLC --- Tratado de Libre Comercio en América del Norte --- TLCAN --- Tratado de Libre Comercio de Norteamérica --- Hokubei Jiyū Bōeki Kyōtei --- Acordo Norte-Americano de Livre Comércio --- T.L.C. --- TLC --- Accord de libre-échange nord-américain --- ALENA --- Tratado de Libre Comercio --- Agreement between Canada, the United States of America, and the United Mexican States --- Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte --- United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement --- North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17) --- North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 October 7) --- Treaties, etc. (Canada : 1992 October 7) --- Treaties, etc. (Mexico : 1992 October 7) --- Treaties, etc. (United States : 1992 October 7) --- North American Free Trade Agreement (1992) --- NAFTA (1992) --- Tratado Trilateral de Libre Comercio (1992) --- TTLC (1992) --- Tratado de Libre Comercio en América del Norte (1992) --- Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (1992) --- TLCAN (1992) --- Tratado de Libre Comercio de Norteamérica (1992) --- Hokubei Jiyū Bōeki Kyōtei (1992) --- Acordo Norte-Americano de Livre Comércio (1992) --- Nordamerikanische Freihandelszone (1992) --- T.L.C (1992) --- TLC (1992) --- Accord de libre-échange nord-américain (1992) --- ALENA (1992) --- Tratado de Libre Comercio (1992) --- Treaties, etc. (Canada : 1992 Oct. 7) --- Treaties, etc (Canada : 1992 Oct. 7) --- Treaties, etc (Canada : 1992) --- Treaties, etc (Canada)

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Applied general equilibrium (AGE) models have received considerable attention and scrutiny in the public debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This collection brings together the leading AGE models that have been constructed to analyse NAFTA. A variety of approaches to modelling trade liberalization are taken in these studies, including multi-country and multi-sectoral models, models that focus on institutional features of particular sectors (agricultural, autos, steel, textiles and apparel) affecting multinational firms and rules of origin, and models with some inter-temporal structure. Further, by constructing stylized models, theoretical linkages have been identified that drive numerical results in the larger AGE models. The volume also assesses what can be learned about the likely economic effects of NAFTA from the collection of studies taken as a whole. Areas in need of further study have been highlighted.

Foreign trade policy --- North American Free Trade Agreement --- Canada. Treaties, etc. United States, 1988 Jan. 2 --- Free trade --- Equilibrium (Economics) --- Mathematical models. --- North America --- Mathematical models --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- Free trade - North America - Mathematical models. --- Equilibrium (Economics) - Mathematical models. --- Free trade and protection --- Trade, Free --- Trade liberalization --- International trade --- NAFTA --- Accord de libre-échange nord-américain --- ALENA --- Acordo Norte-Americano de Livre Comércio --- Tratado de Libre Comercio --- T.L.C. --- TLC --- Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte --- Tratado de Libre Comercio en América del Norte --- TLCAN --- Tratado de Libre Comercio de Norteamérica --- Tratado Trilateral de Libre Comercio --- TTLC --- Hokubei Jiyū Bōeki Kyōtei --- United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement