What are the advantages and disadvantages of NAFTA for the U.S?
Free trade within the USA, made the USA rich and the same applies to NAFTA. The Hon Justice Jackson of the Supreme Court of the USA (whose views were later vindicated said) summed the matter up in Duckworth v. State of Arkansas, 314 U.S. 390 (1941):- The extent to which state legislation may be allowed to affect the conduct of interstate business in the absence of Congressional action on the subject has long been a vexatious problem. Recently, the tendency has been to abandon the earlier limitations and to sustain more freely such state laws on the ground that Congress has power to supersede them with regulation of its own. It is a tempting escape from a difficult question to pass to Congress the responsibility for continued existence of local restraints and obstructions to national commerce. But these restraints are individually too petty, too diversified, and too local to get the attention of a Congress hard pressed with more urgent matters. The practical result is that, in default o
