1、 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i CRS Products on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (name redacted) Specialist in International Trade and Finance May 15, 2018 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a free trade agreement among th
2、e United States, Canada, and Mexico that entered into force on January 1, 1994. NAFTA includes 8 parts consisting of 22 chapters and 2 side agreements. The main text of the agreement contains provisions on tariff and nontariff barrier elimination, customs procedures, energy, agriculture, technical b
3、arriers to trade, government procurement, foreign investments, services trade, temporary entry for business persons, intellectual property rights protection (IPR), and dispute resolution procedures. Two side agreements to NAFTA contain provisions on labor and the environment, including a separate di
4、spute settlement process. More recent U.S. Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have updated and more enforceable provisions on IPR protection, labor, and the environment, as well as new rules to address changes in economic activities that that have taken place since NAFTA entered into force, such as the wi
