IMPACT OF NAFTA

Impact of NAFTA



Impact of NAFTA

Introduction

NAFTA

NAFTA is a trade agreement that provides for the elimination of customs duties in trade between Mexico, Canada and the United States. The Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its side agreements on environment and labor went into effect on January 1994, five years after the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States (Hufbauer and Schott, 2005). NAFTA created a free trade area of the world's largest, with for six million people producing goods and services worth more than eleven billion dollars.

NAFTA and Border Security

Much has been written about the changes generated from the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington. The debate in this- United States remains open on how to prevent these acts again happen. There is a basic consensus on the strategic elements bipartisan the war on terrorism, based on a perception of vulnerability ubiquitous, which results in the creation of institutions and the implementation, national and international policies of the United States in search of Homeland Security.

A. North

In the U.S., the policies of homeland security began with the issue of the Patriot Act in October 2001. In the third meeting of North American cooperation, since the entry into force of Free Trade in North America, spoke of the need expand the scope of the treaty with a NAFTA plus security and defense. In these two aspects, Canada and the U.S. have a long list of agreements, where the principal agreement is the Aerospace Defense Command North America. In the case of Mexico, not recognized the link between trade and security, and governance and national public opinion say that there should be more approaches U.S. strategic, because it threatens the sovereignty of country (Chamber and Smith, 2002). However, since the mid eighties increased markedly mind the security cooperation to cope with war drugs.

A1.Canada

It is worth mentioning that Mexico and Canada are two countries collaborate with the U.S. more to protect the safety of the country, but none of them share the doctrine of preventive action against terrorism, which is the essence of war against him in the environ- to the world (Lederman, Maloney and Serven, 2005). The link between the defense and homeland security and strategy global war against terrorism shows the need for coordination nation between DHS and other departments and agencies of the federal government United States, especially the Pentagon, the Department of State- do, the Central Intelligence Agency and FBI, well as their counterparts in Canada and Mexico. The application This cooperation with neighbors, for reasons of technology and cooperation strategies, has led at times to conflict interagency, plus there are also perceptions of U.S. tax States, without taking into account the views of Mexico and Canada.

B) South

In the southern U.S. border, city of San Diego declared Economic state of emergency by a dramatic fall in business after September 11, affecting business techniques, textiles, chemicals and Mexican industry, because the system stopped Delivery just in time, without disrupting the dynamics of the inhabitants ...