NAFTA

NAFTA The North American Free Trade Agreement: Did the ¡§Giant Sucking Sound¡¨ Occur as Predicted' This paper takes the famous quote of Ross Perot that states that the North American Free Trade Agreement, better known as NAFTA, would ¡§create a giant sucking sound¡¨ as it sucked jobs out of the United States. This paper is an investigation into such claims as well as an examination of primarily negative, as well as some positive, effects that NAFTA has had on the United States, Mexico, and Canada. This paper covers the effects of NAFTA on things such as employment, produce, and transportation, as well as many other things concerning NAFTA and whether or not it is beneficial. During the investigation of this paper, it was discovered that the full effects of NAFTA cannot properly be seen for almost another ten years. Because of this, we can conclude that¡Xalthough Perot was correct in saying that jobs would be pulled from the United States, he assumed that this would be a negative effect. This may not be the case. Positive effects can result from these negative effects. The North American Free Trade Agreement: Did the ¡§Giant Sucking Sound¡¨ Occur As Predicted' In mexico, nafta, states, united, jobs, trade, agreement, hundred, because, american, people, one, free, effects, countries, workers, perot, mexican, manufacturing, factories, companies, been, products, increase, canada, 1999, 1993, years, two, north, country, whether, wages, negative, lost