Tag: USA: Trumping NAFTA

NOVANEWS By Socialist Project Socialist Project   First published by Global Research on July 20, 2017 Opposition to ‘free trade’ is in the air again, though not in the way most of us expected or hoped. Three decades ago, the move to guarantee, extend and deepen Canada’s economic integration with the United States by way of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two states mobilized an impressive though ultimately unsuccessful opposition. This opposition continued, though with less intensity, when that agreement was later extended to include Mexico via the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Since then, however, with so many other free trade agreements (taking these first ones as their foundational model) deployed as key political levers in fostering neo...