NAFTA Portal

IATP has curated this portal so that most interesting content is near the top, but if you're looking for a specific NAFTA topic, use the search bar.

This portal is a work in progress, as we continue to rediscover material. It is very possible, especially with older online documents, that not all links work, but we haven't tested the tens of thousands that exist in the collection. Also, many of the old documents only existed in print before now. We have put PDFs online, but have yet to convert them to searchable text.

NAFTA Portal Blog

Uprooted Episode 18: NAFTA New Year Update

It's been five months since talks began on the re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA.

An update on NAFTA

The following is a video interview on Rising Up with Sonali, done by IATP's Karen Hansen-Kuhn, on where NAFTA negotiations stand.

NAFTA, no NAFTA, or Worse: TPP via NAFTA?

With President Donald Trump’s threats to withdraw from NAFTA becoming increasingly explicit, market analysts are getting jittery, agribusinesses and commodity groups are raising alarms, Republican governors are planning a

NAFTA Negotiations: Eliminate ISDS for food and water security

As the 6th round of NAFTA negotiations begin this week in Washington D.C, the controversy over exactly what a new agreement might involve (if there is one at all) continues to generate debate.

It's time for Members of Congress to use their clout on NAFTA

As the fifth round of NAFTA 2.0 talks get going in Mexico City, it is hard to get a handle on what’s really happening –  especially when so much is behind closed doors.

Do no harm?: NAFTA, non-regulation of GMOs and Mexican agriculture

Last week, I spent three days in Mexico City to talk with NGOs the public and the press about U.S.

The third track: Trade that builds our economy anew

Sophia Murphy is an advisor to IATP, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. President Trump is playing high stakes poker in the NAFTA talks, with his US Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer, at the helm. Laura Dawson, director of the Wilson Centre’s Canada Centre published an op-ed on 11 October in which she suggests there are two tracks to the NAFTA talks – one is moving ahead with the “easy consensus” (i.e. tracking new issues that gained prominence in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations), while the other, driven by Trump’s tweets and America First Agenda, is putting th

NAFTA and the challenge for water justice

What should a post-TPP U.S. trade and investment policy look like, if it is to protect not only workers, farmers, consumers and the environment in the U.S., but also in other countries? What can individuals and organizations committed to water justice do to make sure that the rights to water, food and health of rural and urban communities in North America are upheld? These issues will be very much on the agenda at the next round of NAFTA talks, starting October 11.

NAFTA 2.0: doing harm with ag biotech approval shortcuts

The NAFTA talks are advancing rapidly with very little information available to the public on their content or the possible consequences for fair and sustainable food and farm systems. This is the third in a series of blogs examining the proposals being made by agribusiness firms that take the failed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) as a starting point.

Organics in NAFTA: Who sets the standards?

The NAFTA talks are advancing rapidly with very little information available to the public on their content or the possible consequences for fair and sustainable food and farm systems. IATP is aiming to stay on top of the process, and our Senior Attorney, Sharon Treat, will be in Toronto this weekend for the third round of negotiations.