NAFTA — and other trade agreements such as TPP — should not be conflated with trade in general. Trade, in its simplest definition, is the exchange of goods or services between entities.

Adjusting NAFTA’s rules of origin is likely to a major issue at those talks. The rules are particularly important to automakers, who use supply chains spread across all three member countries.

Dissolution of NAFTA would have a direct impact on the price of cattle because U.S. beef exports would suddenly face much higher tariffs (up to 25 percent in Mexico). Here, several Longhorn wait ...

The coexistence of border-enforcement policies such as Operation Gatekeeper and economic liberalization programs such as NAFTA is arguably paradoxical given the simultaneous push towards a free flow ...

There have been an increasing number of treaties designed to protect investors in foreign countries. Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been proposed as a model for a ...

Labor unions predicted in 1993 that NAFTA would send many U.S. manufacturing jobs to Mexico, and they continue to argue that the pact prompted a race to the bottom for workers.

NAFTA failed to combat illegal wildlife trafficking, protect against overfishing, or combat illegal logging. TPP includes all of these protections, once again coupled with tough sanctions for ...

Nafta has put the natural resources -- especially energy supplies and water -- of Canada, Mexico and in the United States in danger. Keep the Trade Deal; the U.S. Needs Mexico to Prosper ...