What are the disadvantages of NAFTA?
NAFTA, as it stands, is good for the USA, Canada and Mexico. If industry is not internationally competitive, then we all lose out. Countries without free trade – Communist Russia – were not conspicuously successful. What Justice Robert H. Jackson – a Democrat from New York appointed by FDR – said about interstate free trade in Duckworth v. Arkansas, 314 U.S. 390 (1941) is equally applicable to international free trade: – The opinion of the Court solves the present case through a construction of the interstate commerce power. It regards this liquor as a legitimate subject of a lawful commerce, and then, because of its special characteristics, approves this admittedly novel permit system, and thus expands the power of the state to regulate such lawful commerce beyond anything this Court has yet approved. 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.
