North America in Focus is a weekly aggregation of online news resources, specifically focusing on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Security Prosperity Partnership (SPP), the North American Leaders' Summit and other hot topics in North America.

October 19, 2008 -- October 25, 2008

Nafta-Plus
Wall Street Journal - USA
The proposed partnership goes a lot further than Nafta. In addition to allowing free trade in goods and services, it would harmonize regulations, ...

Mexico's ambassador to US hints of energy reform
Houston Chronicle - United States
“I think that renegotiating NAFTA is like throwing a monkey wrench into the competitiveness of North America,” he said. ...

Ban on pesticides may face NAFTA test
Globe and Mail - Canada
The company, a maker of the weed-killer 2,4-D, filed a notice of intent to submit a claim to arbitration under NAFTA in late August. ...

A new US chief, a new Harper mandate – and a new big idea
Globe and Mail - Canada
Pessimists fear that, once NAFTA is reopened, anything could happen. From the St. Lawrence Seaway to the auto pact to free trade, Canada has led in ...

Our Next President and the Perfect Economic Storm
Wall Street Journal - USA
... unilaterally renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, and by making substantive proposals such as expanding Nafta to the European Union. ..

The more things change
Economist - UK
Mr Obama has said he will seek to “renegotiate” the North American Free-Trade Agreement ( NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico. He also opposes the trade agreement ...

Weeding out the facts
Globe and Mail - Canada
... by "medical and environmental organizations" to support municipal and provincial bans on pesticides (Ban On Pesticides May Face NAFTA Test - Oct. 22). ...

Dow Chemical subsidiary challenges Quebec ban on 2,4-D pesticide
The Canadian Press - MONTREAL
Chapter 11 allows investors from one NAFTA country to sue the government of another NAFTA country for actions which they believe hurt them or their ...

Quebec defends pesticide ban
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
The Quebec government defended last night its 2006 broad ban on pesticides, which has sparked a US agro-science company's legal challenge under NAFTA. ...

NAFTA wisdom: Mexico has offered the US an opportunity to hold it ...
Houston Chronicle - United States
But that country's leadership will also greet the new commander in chief with a blunt message on trade and, by inference, immigration: Don't mess with NAFTA...

Barack Obama's, John McCain's economic plans aimed at swing states ...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
Unlike those states, Texas has reaped the benefits of NAFTA. It's also a state where unions exercise little political clout. That contrast was most apparent ...

Ag commish wants EPA to act on chemicals
Chicago Tribune - United States
Vroom, Johnson and Kemery agree that a better means for cross-border movement of pesticides is the NAFTA label process, but that system has been slow to ...

The Age Of Innocents
Newsweek - USA
NAFTA has not only made smuggling drugs into the United States easier but has allowed cartels to amass arsenals of weapons made north of the border. ...