The NAFTA Act of 1993
In 1993, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed.Included was a gradual removal of tariffs on various goods traded betweenMexico, Canada and the United States. The first implementation of thesetariff removals began on January 1, 1994. According to the U.S. informationservice, "Under the NAFTA, all non tariff barriers to agricultural tradebetween the United States and Mexico were eliminated. In addition, manytariffs were eliminated immediately, with others to be phased out,resulting in full implementation of all agricultural provisions by the year2008." (Economic Perspectives, June 1996) It may be worth noting, in the aftermath of the recent outbreak ofmad cow disease in a northwestern United States dairy herd that among thetariffs removed, making trade easier and more profitable for Canada, wererestrictions and tariffs on agricultural products, including cattle. Theinfected cow was traced to a dairy cow producer in Canada. Since 1989, aU.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement had been in effect; all the provisionsincorporated in that, including tariffs, had been incorporated into NAFTA;all tariff affecting agricultural trade between those two signatories to
, including DDT, are legal in the trade zones. Agricultural products are not, however, the only ones to see removalof tariffs and quotas under NAFTA. For Mexico, special safeguards were agreed forlive swine and most pork products, apples and potato products. (Smith 2002) Observers say that Mexico has, however, done well since NAFTA withlabor-intensive crops. ,because these are not labor-intensive, the job increase probably did notmatch the rate of export expansion. and Mexicowere eliminated in that first round, on January 1, 1994. Even before the round of tariff cuts forU.
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