Sentence examples for nafta at from inspiring English sources

According to one person, a debate had been carried on for a couple of weeks in August over whether the President should go forward with NAFTA at all.

Ms. Palin told reporters in Alaska that the anonymous criticism was "cowardly," and that she had discussed the campaign's position on Nafta at her debate prep sessions.

Mr. Obama's union supporters have not put changing Nafta at the top of their agenda, focusing instead on issues like China's exchange rate.

"The Texas D.P.S. has significantly enhanced commercial vehicle enforcement activity along the U.S.-Mexico border since 2003-4 through border staffing grants from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in anticipation of the full implementation of Nafta at some future date," said Tela Mange, a spokeswoman for the public safety department.

But the United States says a "side letter," added to Nafta at the last minute to protect the American sugar industry and to win crucial votes in Congress to assure the trade agreement's passage, limits Mexico's exports to 116,000 tons.

Late Wednesday night, the White House issued a statement that said, "President Trump agreed not to terminate NAFTA at this time and the leaders agreed to proceed swiftly, according to their required internal procedures, to enable the renegotiation of the NAFTA deal to the benefit of all three countries".

"We warmly welcome Vostok Nafta as a new investor and at the same time we continue to appreciate the overwhelming trust our existing investors have in our business," Östberg said.

"Bilateral investment treaties went both ways," said Todd Weiler, a Nafta expert at the University of Windsor Law School in Canada, "but in practice there weren't that many Barbadians or Nicaraguans investing in the U.S".

Some critics of Nafta jeered at this argument, claiming that Mexican reform was a sham, that the reformers themselves were merely well-spoken crooks -- a claim made more plausible as revelations emerged about the dealings of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

But many in Mexico expect at the very least the economy to suffer, particularly if he tears up Nafta as he has threatened to do.

For Nafta and against Nafta.