Economic Theory of NAFTA & China & WTO
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which took effect on January 1, 1994, called for the phasing out of virtually all restrictions on trade and investment flows among the United States, Canada, and Mexico over a ten year period. The United States and Canada were already well into the elimination of bi-lateral trade barriers in accordance with the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, so the new feature of NAFTA involved removal of the barriers between Mexico and the other two nations. GDP dollar estimates for all three countries as shown above are derived from purchasing power parity (PPP) calculations rather than from conversions at official currency exchange rates. According to Wikipedia (online) the PPP method involves the use of standardized international dollar price weights, which are applied to the quantities of final goods and services produced in a given economy (Purchasing Power Parity, 2005).á While it is not possible to say with certainly to what extent NAFTA is responsible for the increases shown in the charts above relating to GDP per capita, the following comments can be made:
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