Trade agreement between the United States and Canada

This article talks about the Free Trade Agreement in 1989 and now with NAFTA between the United States and Canadian during a speech by Ambassador Roger F. Noriega. He explains that the free trade after fifteen years has helped the United States and Canada know how much trade liberalization helps our economies, companies, farmers, consumers, and our workers. As result of the trade agreement, trade has tripled, wages have risen, jobs have multiplied, and hundreds of new companies have been established.
On the contrary, some issues still remain at stake. One of those issues is the full restoration of trade in cattle and beef between the U.S. and our common customers around the world. Many of the restrictions has caused much pain to cattlemen and packers. One other trade dispute is over softwood lumber. In a war named "Aroostook Lumber War" of 1839, Canada and the U.S. have been arguing about lumber till this day! NAFTA and the WTO judged that provincial practices can be a subsidy and that individual Canadian firms are selling at unfair prices, but they also question the U.S calculations with respect to the degree of subsidization of dumping and the threat of injury facing U.S. producers. The U.S. and Canada are still currently working to resolve this dispute.

This article can be found at http://www.usembassycanada.gov/content/can_usa/noriega_091304.pdf
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