As noted above in the section discussing the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), that office has historically maintained materials concerning the major regional trade agreement for North America, previously the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), now the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The USTR archived a page online discussing NAFTA, though the content available from this page is limited to the text of the agreement and a link to the docket wherein the public submitted comments concerning the future new agreement in 2017. The dedicated USMCA site does not yet host any material, but the USMCA site hosted on USTR’s trade agreements page links to the text of the agreement, protocols, analysis, and decisions of the USMCA Free Trade Commission.
Content in commercial databases:
- Lexis: NAFTA Panel Review Decisions, coverage from 1995.
- Westlaw: USCMA and NAFTA Awards and Binational Panel Decisions, coverage from 1989.
- Westlaw: NAFTA materials – coverage from 1992.
Selected secondary sources:
- An Introduction to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement : Understanding the New NAFTA by David A. Gantz (2020), available electronically.
- Created from NAFTA: The Structure, Function and Significance of the Treaty's Related Institutions by Joseph A. McKinney (1999), available electronically.
- Negotiating NAFTA: Explaining the Outcome in Culture, Textiles, Autos, and Pharmaceuticals by Maryse Robert (2000), available electronically.
- Reevaluating NAFTA: Theory and Practice, by Intiaz Hussain (2012), available electronically.
- The USMCA, NAFTA Re-Negotiated and Its Business Implications in a Nutshell by Ralph H. Folsom and W. Davis Folsom - study aid available in print in the law library at REF KDZ944.F65 U86 2020 and in West Academic.
- Congressional Research Service Reports: Numerous research reports solicited by members of Congress, search for either agreement as a term.
