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NAFTA

American  
[naf-tuh] / ˈnæf tə /
Or Nafta

noun

  1. North American Free Trade Agreement.


NAFTA British  
/ ˈnæftə /

acronym

  1. North American Free Trade Agreement

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Again, this does not include products which meet the terms of NAFTA.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2025

Supporters of NAFTA, for example, argued that the United States would benefit from reduced trade barriers, lower prices for agricultural goods from Mexico, and newly available jobs for lower-wage workers.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

Boosterism over the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA, has all but disappeared on both sides of the Rio Grande.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2022

Under the tougher rules of the new trade pact, which replaced NAFTA, factories that violate worker rights could lose their tariff-free status on exports.

From Reuters May 27, 2022

She borrowed her parents’ red Toyota and drove through the neighborhoods tucked behind the vast industrial corridor that had consumed Matamoros in the decades since NAFTA.

From Seattle Times Oct. 2, 2021

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