Exporting to the United States – A Team Canada Inc Publication

1.4 Understanding the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

The North American Free Trade Agreement provides comprehensive disciplines for trade in goods and services, investment, intellectual property and dispute settlement. One of its major achievements has been to eliminate the tariffs on most goods originating in the member nations. Another has been to liberalize regulations affecting matters such as investment and cross-border trade in services. These have provided many excellent business opportunities for Canadian exporters and continue to do so.

We'll examine NAFTA's impacts on Canadian exporters at various places in this guide, particularly in section 4.2. In the meantime, you can find useful information about NAFTA, including the full text of the NAFTA agreement.