NAFTA is the North America Free Trade Agreement between Canada, United States, and Mexico, and was an expansion of the trade deal United States and Canada signed in 1988. NAFTA eliminated tariffs, import and export taxes, on product trade between the three countries. It was negotiated in 1991 by republican president George HW Bush and implemented in 1994 by democratic president Bill Clinton. The agreement had bipartisan support in congress and was projected to boost the economy of all three nations. Another goal of the agreement was to bring economic growth to Mexico and to discourage illegal immigration. United States and Canada were developed countries with a stronger economy than Mexico, which was a poor, developing country. Strengthening
