Peter Clark, an Ottawa - based international trade strategist who was involved in the original NAFTA and Canada-U.S. free trade negotiations, said the American behaviour is a vivid and unprecedented example of how not to negotiate. (macleans.ca)
«The Canadian - U.S. Experience in Auto Trade since 1965: Its Relevance for Free Trade Negotiations with Mexico,» C.D. Howe Institute Commentary 24, by Ronald J. Wonnacott (December). (cdhowe.org)
However, since then Clinton has been ineffective in persuading Congress to grant him «fast track» negotiating authority either for a new international round of free trade negotiations, through the World Trade Organization (permanent successor to GAIT), or for gradual expansion of NAFTA to embrace most of Latin America. (religion-online.org)