The North American Free Trade Agreement

A farranging free trade agreement was negotiated between Canada and the United States in the mid to late1980s, and the CanadaUnited States Free Trade Agreement because effective on 1 January 1989 (Cardinali, 1989). Early in 1990, the governments of both Mexico and the United States began to speak openly and favorably toward the idea of free trade between the two countries (Fenley, 1990). Almost immediately, the Canadian government indicated that any free trade agreement between Mexico and the United States would affect Canada and would affect the CanadaUnited States Free Trade Agreement, and, thus, Canada should be a party in any free trade discussions between Mexico and the United States (Allard, 1990). Initially, the Bush Administration was publicly cool to the Canadian suggestion, indicating that it preferred bilateral agreements with its trading partners (Kuttner, 1991). In Canada, however, the CanadaUnited States Free Trade Agreement has never enjoyed overwhelming public support, and American insistence on freezing Canada out of free trade negotiations with Mexico threatened to create significant additional problems for both the beleaguered Mulrooney Government and for the Free Trade Agreement, which is subject to unilateral cancellation by either party during the early years of its life. As a consequence, intense pressure on Washington by the Canadian government assured that

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national foreign policy considerations are involved. Under this provision, thus, the United States may continue to prohibit the entry of Cuban products. Canadian Perspective Canada has viewed with alarm the loss of companies, production facilities, and jobs to the United States in the wake of the CanadaUnited States Free Trade Agreement, although the Mulrooney Government has not given any sign that it is particularly perturbed by the outcomes. The chances of reelection of the Mulrooney Government, however, are slim (the Government has a 15 percent approval rating in the polls, with a requirement to call an election by late1992). As much as Canada generally has trepidations about a free trade agreement with Mexico (if Canadian jobs were lost to a lower wage area United States, the Canadian imagination runs wild at the number of jobs which may be lost to cheap Mexican labor), however, Canada worries even more about additional free trade agreements in the Western Hemisphere of which they are not a party. The Canadian fear is that the United States would, if it were possible, negotiate bilateral free trade agreements with all of the countries in the Western Hemisphere, so that the United States would be in a position to
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