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In 1994, the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the US created what was at that time a very modern free trade area by promulgating the entry into force of NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA was essentially an amended version of the then five-year-old Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement (CUSTA). The new agreement not only enlarged CUSTA by adding Mexico as a third party; it made economic integration stronger and deeper in the fields already opened to free trade and it covered new sectors and new trade-related issues.
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Bélanger, L., Ouellet, R. (2010). Ruling the North American Market: NAFTA and its Extensions. In: Mace, G., Cooper, A.F., Shaw, T.M. (eds) Inter-American Cooperation at a Crossroads. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294837_11
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