NORTH AMERICAN free trade AGGREGEMENT (NAFTA) is a trilateral trade bloc in North America created by the governments of the united states, canada, and Mexico. Objectives To eliminate barriers to trade between the territories parties to enhance the competitive advantage to reduce the prices of the products and services by enhancing the competition to create new business opportunities.
NORTH AMERICAN free trade AGGREGEMENT (NAFTA) is a trilateral trade bloc in North America created by the governments of the united states, canada, and Mexico. Objectives To eliminate barriers to trade between the territories parties to enhance the competitive advantage to reduce the prices of the products and services by enhancing the competition to create new business opportunities.
Copyright:
Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
Available Formats
Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
NORTH AMERICAN free trade AGGREGEMENT (NAFTA) is a trilateral trade bloc in North America created by the governments of the united states, canada, and Mexico. Objectives To eliminate barriers to trade between the territories parties to enhance the competitive advantage to reduce the prices of the products and services by enhancing the competition to create new business opportunities.
Copyright:
Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
Available Formats
Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Secretariats - Mexico City, Ottawa and Washington
Official languages - English, French and Spanish
TheNorth American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA ) is a trilateral trade bloc in North America created by the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Objectives
To eliminate barriers to trade between the territories
parties To enhance the competitive advantage
To reduce the prices of the products and services by
enhancing the competition To create new business opportunities Measures
Opening up of government procurement markets in
each member country of NAFTA Residents of NAFTA countries can invest in any other NAFTA countries freely Protection of intellectual property rights of the NAFTA member countries Free flow of employees and business from one member country to another EFFECTS OF NAFTA BENEFITS 200% increase in trade among the 3 countries.
Increase market access within each country.
Benefit’s the importers by reduced or duty free goods.
Can make the exporter more competitive then other non-
participating countries Critical appraisal Most of the US industries will shift to Mexico as Mexico has less stringent environmental protection and health and safety legislations than USA Proponents of NAFTA say that it increases jobs in the US, but opponents of NAFTA say that it decreases jobs in the US, because it is easier to export factories to Mexico where the cost of labor is very low CONCLUSION NAFTA is one of the most successful treaties of the times in terms of growth in trade i.e. imports & exports , G.D.P e.t.c The emergence of NAFTA helps all the three member countries in the Area of industrial development, increase in employment opportunities, income and living standards of the people