North American Free Trade Agreement goes into effect 20 years ago today (Jan 1 1994)


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(Saturday, January 1, 1994) — The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral rules-based trade bloc in North America, came into force today. The AFL-CIO blamed the agreement for sending 700,000 American manufacturing jobs to Mexico by 2011.