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Alliances: (Chris)

 * ======//NAFTA alliances are Canada, Mexico, and United Sates. //======
 * ======//This was made to promote trade across those countries' borders. //======
 * ======//In March 2002, the National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, D.C., Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters , Ottawa, and the Camara Nacional de la Industria de Transformacion, Mexico City, came up with the idea of NAFTA, this is a partnership where Canada, Mexico, and United Sates get together to grow economically and other different things. //======

Weapons Trade: (Marissa)

 * ======//NAFTA doesn’t have a weapons agreement. If the US, Canada and Mexico wanted to sell weapons to each other NAFTA would just make the progress of trading easier for Canada, Mexico and the US to trade weapons. //Mexican officers are outgunned because America is failing to stop dangerous weapons that are being smuggled over the boarder. Mexico wants the US to step up the security of the boarder so that no more weapons will be smuggled over the boarder. ======


 * ======//Canada is opposed to any kind of nuclear weapons. //======
 * ======//Mexico has no nuclear weapons. //======
 * ======//This is done to prevent problems between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. //======

Foreign Aid: (caila)

 * //NAFTA made an agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico to integrate their economies by lowering and eventually removing tariff barriers, including all Western hemisphere countries besides Cuba. //
 * ======//NAFTA financial side agreement called the NAFG gave the peso a high foreign exchange value. //======
 * ======//NAFTA helped to hide Mexico’s financial condition, heighten investment losses, and undermined market discipline when the peso finally crashed. //======
 * ======//NAFTA’s peso bailout fund later helped form the basis for a much larger bailout of Mexico’s foreign debt obligations. //======
 * ======//American exports to Mexico have increased as Mexico's economy has grown. //======
 * ======//NAFTA has helped Mexico get closer to being as developed as the United States and Canada. //======
 * Before NAFTA, the import into Mexico was eliminated in the 1920's.

**Problems:**

 * ======//NAFTA could possibly be responsible for the loss of jobs in Canada and the United States as well as a reduction in wages and worker rights in Mexico. //======

Food: (Demi)

 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. exports to Mexico of corn, dry edible beans, nonfat dry milk and high fructose corn syrup and Mexican exports to the United States of sugar and certain horticultural products are now removed. //
 * ======//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NAFTA kept Mexican markets open to U.S. farm and food products in 1995 during the worst economic crisis in Mexico's modern history. //======
 * ======//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dairy: Only U.S. or Mexican milk or milk products can be used to make cream, butter, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, or milk-based drinks traded under NAFTA preferential rates. //======
 * ======//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Citrus: All single-fruit juices (fresh, frozen, concentrated, reconstituted, fortified) must be made from 100-percent NAFTA-origin fresh citrus fruit. The de minimis provision does not apply to any citrus products. //======
 * ======//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Peanut: Mexico must produce the peanuts to qualify for NAFTA preferential rates on peanuts and peanut products exported to the United States. U.S. exports of peanut products to Mexico are subject to this same rule. //======