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- <title>
- Mar. 29, 1993: Big Smiles, Real Teeth
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 29, 1993 Yeltsin's Last Stand
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 15
- BUSINESS
- Big Smiles, Real Teeth
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- <body>
- <p>Three nations meet to beef up North America's trade treaty
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- <p> Worried that growing opposition in Congress could imperil the
- North American Free Trade Agreement negotiated by President
- George Bush last year, the Clinton Administration has promised
- to put "real teeth'' in side agreements to the treaty to
- protect the environment and workers' rights. Negotiations on
- those issues got under way in Washington with smiles on all
- sides. Yet the U.S., Mexico and Canada immediately staked out
- divergent positions that make a quick accord unlikely.
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- <p> Clinton supports NAFTA but wants to create a three-nation
- commission to monitor and possibly enforce treaty compliance.
- Canada and especially Mexico have warned that such a commission
- must not infringe on their sovereignty. If the opposing views
- can be reconciled before a tentative summer deadline, Congress
- could approve the world's largest free-trade zone by the end of
- 1993, creating a market with 360 million consumers and goods and
- services worth more than $6 trillion annually.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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