Nafta's Approval: A Story Of Congress At Work "From International Relations To National Accountability"

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) entered into force on January 1, 1994.' Since then, the new General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has been approved; control of the United States Congress has changed from Democrat to Republican; Mexico is going through a financial crisis; and apparently nothing dramatic, for better or for worse, has yet happened to the American economy.