Overview
- The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a comprehensive
trade liberalizing agreement among Canada, Mexico, and the
United States.
- NAFTA progressively eliminated almost all tariff and quota
barriers to agricultural trade among these countries over
a transition period that began on January 1, 1994 and concluded
on January 1, 2008.
- The agreement also facilitates cross-border investment,
requires that sanitary and phytosanitary standards for trade
be scientifically based, and expands cooperation regarding
the environment and labor.
ERS is the principal USDA agency
involved in the preparation of the Department's Congressionally
mandated NAFTA report. ERS also conducts research about various
NAFTA-related topics, such as the agreement's impact on specific
sectors of the agricultural economy, ideas for furthering the
integration of the member countries' agricultural sectors,
and cross-border transportation issues.
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