World & Nation
As more of the closely held details of the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement trickled out here Thursday, many critics expressed fears that the pact could turn out to be the first step toward the creation of a North American trade citadel.
Aug. 14, 1992
The outline of a North American free-trade agreement that could be consummated this year is at hand.
Feb. 11, 1992
Business
The North American Free Trade agreement has been hailed by free-marketeers across America.
Oct. 19, 1992
Within weeks or even days, the United States, Mexico and Canada will sign a draft free-trade agreement that will have enormous impact on the economic and social future of all three countries.
July 19, 1992
While officials from the United States, Mexico and Canada celebrated the completion of a draft North American Free Trade Agreement among themselves, officials of some of their neighbors in the southern half of the hemisphere Friday expressed apprehensions about the pact.
Aug. 15, 1992
As the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement moves ever closer to creating a potentially powerful hemispheric trade zone, the government of Japan is voicing increasing anxiety that NAFTA could prove harmful to its vaunted export machine.
Dec. 28, 1992
Hills Reticent on Free Trade Pact: Carla Anderson Hills, the U.S. trade representative, ended a two-day trip to Mexico without offering any clear commitment that a North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, would be presented to Congress this year, only saying: “If we get a good agreement, I think it will be presented (before the U.S. elections).”
Feb. 5, 1992
When the United States, Canada and Mexico sit down to negotiate a free-trade agreement this year, there will be another party to the talks--one conspicuous by its absence.
April 4, 1991
Politics
Labor Secretary Lynn Martin ran into sharp Senate criticism Thursday for the Administration’s failure to explain how it would finance the retraining of workers who might lose their jobs from a continental free trade agreement.
Sept. 11, 1992
For Carlos Salinas de Gortari, ex-klansman David Duke and liberal Democrat Harris Wofford pose a common threat.
Dec. 15, 1991