The+North+American+Free+Trade+Agreement

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**A)** **Name of Organization**
The North American Free Trade Agreement (//NAFTA//)

** B) Brief History of Organization (when, where, how, why) **

 * When: ** President George H.W. Bush, Mexican President, Salinas, and Canadian Prime Minister, Brain Mulroney signed NAFTA in 1994 but it wasn't fully active until January 1, 1994
 * Where: ** Canada, USA, and Mexico
 * How: ** President Ronald Reagan campaigned on a North American common market and in 1994, Congress passed the Trade and Tariff Act. Canadian prime minister like the idea and agreed with Reagan to begin negotiations for Canada and the U.S. Free Trade Agreement, but it is now suspended by NAFTA. Then the president of Mexico and President Bush began trade negotiations between the two countries. Then in 1991, Canada made a trilateral agreement and that's how NAFTA formed
 * Why: ** To reduce trading costs, increase business investments, and help North America be more competitive in the global marketplace

** C) Identify member states and which ones are the most powerful **
Canada, USA, and Mexico and the U.S.A is the most powerful one

** D) Purposes/goals/objectives of organizations **
the purpose of NAFTA is to grant the signatories Most Favored Nation status, eliminate barriers to trade and facilitate the cross-border movement of goods and services, promote conditions of fair competition, increase investment opportunities, create procedures for the resolution of trade disputes, establish a framework for further trilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation to expand NAFTA's benefits and provide protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights. Some goals of NAFTA are to reduce barriers to trade, to help develop and expand world trade and provide a catalyst to broader international cooperation.

** E) Structure/hierarchy/subdivisions of organizations **
NAFTA'S structure and hierarchy is uncertain and their subdivisions of organizations are uncertain as well

** F) Advantages of membership in organization **
there are larger North American market access and new exports and investment opportunities

** G) Disadvantages of membership in organization **
Since there are a lot of people working, your hours are cut back and you don't get paid as much

**H)** **Explanation of how the organization challenges/preserves local diversity**
NAFTA challenged local diversity by having food or products transport from one country to another easily

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The North American Free Trade Agreement