Preamble to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Treaty
By: Governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico
Date: 1994
Source: Preamble to the North American Free Trade Agreement between U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Available online at http://www-tech.mit.edu/Bulletins/Nafta/00.preamble; website home page: http://www-tech.mit.edu (accessed June 5, 2003).
Introduction
Since the late nineteenth century, the United States had emerged as an economic world power. By 1914, the nation was the largest, most productive industrial power in the world. Most of America's economic growth in the first half of the twentieth century came from domestic production and consumption. Yet after the 1950s, trade with other nations became increasingly more important. Between 1960 and 1980, many of America's trading partners modernized their...
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