NAFTA Agreement

NAFTA. See North American Free Trade Agreement. 

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HORMONES - ESTROGENS AND ANTIESTROGENS] (Vol 13) NAFTA. See North American Free Trade Agreement. 

NAFTA also contains TBT and SPS agreements similar to those in the new WTO agreements. 

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) A trade agreement signed in December 1992 by U S. President George H. W. Bush,... 

Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. The agreement eliminates tariffs on most goods originating in and traveling between the three member countries. It was approved by the legislatures of the three countries and had entered into force by January 1994. When it was created, NAFTA formed one of the largest free-trade areas of its kind in the world. 

Other efforts at harmonizing food laws occur between partners of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) involving the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and between Australia and New Zealand. A suggested approach to legislative harmonization is depicted in Figure 12-4. The existence of a model food act developed by CA should be an incentive in bringing about harmonization within and between countries. 

When significant quantities of residues remain at the skin site, the conventional approach is to include these residues in the percentage of absorbed dose. Eor instance, as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Technical Working Group on Pesticides, there was agreement that bound skin residues are considered absorbed when the bioavailability of residues cannot be determined (NAFTA, 2000). This approach is considered conservative as it is unlikely that all... 

Harmonization initiatives can occur as a result of specific agreements between two or more countries, as in Europe (EU) through the European Conunission (EC), in North America under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or more broadly under the umbrella of international nongovernmental organizations such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 

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