November 25, 2008
Academic Module
This module features teaching notes by CFR Douglas Dillon Fellow for Latin America Studies Shannon K. O'Neil, director of the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on Latin America, U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality, along with other resources to supplement the text. This Task Force report offers recommendations for U.S. policy toward Latin America and identifies four crucial areas—poverty and inequality, public security, migration, and energy security—that should provide the basis of a new U.S. approach.
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September 12, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts discuss U.S.-Latin America trade policies including CAFTA-DR, NAFTA, and farm subsidies.
This symposium was made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Updated: July 7, 2009
Backgrounder
A look at the basics of the North American Free Trade Agreement, its overall economic impact, and its effect on workers in the United States.
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Updated: March 18, 2008
Online Debate
Jeffrey J. Schott, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Thea M. Lee, policy director for the AFL-CIO, debate what the next president should do on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
February 28, 2008
Interview
Edward Alden, a CFR trade and immigration expert, says it is wrong to pin blame on NAFTA for the ills of the U.S. economy. Most of the competition that has affected U.S. manufacturing has come from the rest of the world, he says.
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September 15, 2005
Transcript
May 17, 2005
Audio
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March 14, 2005
Audio
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January 1, 1994
Essential Documents
Treaty
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January 1, 1994
Essential Documents
Agreement
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