Introduction Summary In January 1994, the United States, Mexico, and Canada implemented the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The goal of NAFTA is to create better trading conditions through tariff reduction, removal of investment barriers, and improvement of intellectual property protection. NAFTA continues to gradually reduce tariffs on set dates and aims to eliminate all tariffs by the year 2004. Before NAFTA was established, investing in Mexico was a difficult process. Investors needed the Mexican Government's …showed first 75 words of 3721 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3721 total…more significant matters on its own. Bibliography EFTA Page. EFTA Secretariat EFTA Surveillance Authority EFTA Court. 23 March 1999 *http://www.efta.int/structure/main/index.html*. "How They Add Up." Fortune 126.13 (14 Dec. 1992): 152 - 153. http://www.americasnet.com/mauritz/mercosur/english ; MERCOSUR Sabkar, Maysoon; http://bmb.net/our_views/Reports/Country/paraguay_1.htm , 1998 http://www.embassy.org/uruguay/econ/mercosur/merc-002.htm ; Embassy of Uruguay, Washington D.C. 1996 http://www.heinlein.com.ar/eco.htm ; Argentina Brief