NAFTA turns fifteen

“Everytime I buy a piece of clothing, I look at the label and I can probably tell you the particular trade program under which it was made.” –Edward Alden on NAFTA

It’s been fifteen years since President Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement into law, yet it has only been fully implemented this year. Edward Alden, a U.S. trade policy expert and the Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at The Council on Foreign Relations, discusses NAFTA’s past, present and future with The Takeaway.