Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Air Quality Agreement, Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, Canada United States Automotive Products Agreement, Canada United States Free Trade Agreement, Canadian American Reciprocity Treaty, Columbia River Treaty, Great Lakes Charter, Great Lakes Saint Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement, Halibut Treaty, Migratory Bird Treaty, Northwest Cattle Project, North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, North American Free Trade Agreement, Ogdensburg Agreement, Shakwak Agreement, UKUSA Agreement, Webster Ashburton Treaty. Excerpt: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada. NAFTA has two supplements: the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC). Following diplomatic negotiations dating back to 1986 among the three nations, the leaders met in San Antonio, Texas, on December 17, 1992, to sign NAFTA. U.S. President George H. W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas, each responsible for spearheading and promoting the agreement, ceremonially signed it. The signed agreement then needed to be ratified by each nation's legislative or parliamentary branch. Before the negotiations were finalized, Bill Clinton came into office in the U.S. and Kim Campbell in Canada, and before the agreement became law, Jean Chretien had taken office in Canada. The proposed Canada-U.S. trade agreement had been very controversial and divisive in Canada, and the 1988 Canadian election was fought almost exclusively on that issue. In that election, more Canadians voted for anti-free trade parties (the Liberals and the New Democrats) but the split caused more seats in parliament to be won by the pro-free trade Progressive Conservatives (PCs). Mulroney and the PCs had a parliamentary majority and were easily able to pass the Canada-US FTA and NAFTA bills. However, he was replaced as Conservative leader and prime minister by Kim Campbell. Campbell led the PC party into the 1993 election where they were decimated by the Liberal Party under Jean Chretien, who had campaigned on a promise to renegotiate or abrogate NAFTA; however, Chretien subsequently negotiated two supplemental agreements with the new US president. In the US, Bush, who had worked to