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United on Trade but Divided on NAFTA
Survey says citizens in US less keen on USMCA than their partners

27 June 2019

President Trump has referred to NAFTA as the worst deal ever – but what do the people in the USA but also in Canada and Mexico think? A new study commissioned by the GED team finds that Canadians and Mexicans are generally in favour of NAFTA but that US Americans are divided. Click the download link to find more interesting insights from our study. More ...

What Is Going to Happen, if Trump Withdraws from NAFTA?
Possible consequences of Trump's continental trade termination

14 March 2018

NAFTA’s Impact In 1991, the US, Canada and Mexico signed the free trade agreement NAFTA. Back then that was an influential and important step for overall trade. The closely integrated value chains among the 3 countries meant NAFTA had a big influence on productivity for all three. For 20 years, efficient production networks were developed […] More ...

GED Presents: The All New, All Powerful FTA VIS
The newest update to our award winning data visualization tool provides even more content for you to explore!

26 October 2017

Today we are launching our new and updated version of FTA VIS. Dive on in as more deals, more information and more stories are waiting to be explored! More ...

Downgrading or Upgrading NAFTA?
NAFTA’s economic pros and cons in a nutshell

23 September 2017

Negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement will go into the third round this weekend (23-27 September) in Ottawa. In the talks, which are always burdened by critical statements and Twitter messages from US President Donald Trump, however, all options still seem to be on the table. Both a successful modernization of the trade deal as well as a complete failure of the negotiations and a possible withdrawal from NAFTA are conceivable. More ...

Nafta at the Crossroads
The Rocky Road Ahead

26 May 2017

When finalized in the early 1990s, NAFTA was the most complex trade and investment deal of its kind. Today it has lost much of its popularity. Can it be saved? More ...

The Crossroads: US - Mexico Trade
From Juarez, to the White House – this is US – Mexico trade at a Crossroads. Let’s go inside!

22 May 2017

The US-Mexico trade relationship emerged as an issue in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and it remains a critical fault line in globalization. this film by Samuel George of the Bertelsmann Foundation dives into the stories behind the statistics to uncover some of the challenges impacting those on both sides of the Rio Grande. More ...

Presidential Powers and International Trade: How Far Can Trump Go?
An array of tools could spell challenges for the international community

24 February 2017

Many were struck by the ease by which the new US President could just undo several years of hard negotiation and knock-out one of the potentially biggest free trade agreements in history, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), from coming into existence. Keeping this in mind, it seems worthwhile to take a closer look at what powers on trade the President actually has – and at the checks and balances in place. More ...

FTAs in the 21st Century & the “Domino Effect”

24 July 2015

The fall and breakup of the Soviet Union opened a new era of Free Trade Agreements. But was the opening up of former communist ruled markets the only reason for the dramatic increase in FTAs during the 90's? More ...