Freeing trade in North America / Greg Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Greg, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17).

North American Free Trade Agreement.

North America--Economic integration--Political aspects.

North America.

North America--Foreign economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 199 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"A concise analysis and overview of the trilateral trade agreements--NAFTA and its successor USCMA--that have created one of the largest trade blocs in the world. 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 it has looked increasingly precarious as a trilateral trade agreement. 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 provides an accessible and lively analysis of the agreements' key provisions, short-comings and the past revision efforts of the governments involved".

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Introduction

The North American idea

What the NAFTA is (and is not)

The Idea of a Youth Squad: Crime Prevention for “Children on the Verge” in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

New ground broken and (mixed?) results

Much ado about foreign direct investment

Governance in the NAFTA, or lack thereof?

Labour and the environment

NAFTA 2.0: did the USMCA modernize anything?

Spaghetti Bowl of Commitments by the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership Signatories

US Trade in Goods and Services with Nafta Partners, 1989–2017

References

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-2280-0076-9

OCLC:

1121075557