Discussion. Hello, welcome, jennifer join us here today. Im a master of arts student here. The north American Free tradee agreement was enforced on january 1, 1994. The agreement was signed by president george bush on december 7 t. And a 1992 when approved by congress in November November 101994. Excuse me, 1993. Nafta is significant because of the most comprehensive Free Trade Agreement negotiated at the time and several groundbreaking provisions served as a template model for the new generation of freetrade agreement the United States later negotiated and also served as a template for certain provisions of multilateral trade negotiations as part of the round. This Year Congress will decide on what legislation to consider into a man on the current nafta. They will also consider the ramifications of negotiating or regarding nafta and how it might affect the u. S. Economy and Foreign Relations of partners mexico and canada. Some contend withdraw from the tpp issue of competitiveness fro
Washington correspondent, peter cook and john kerrys diplomatic trip to ukraine. Our peace efforts yielding any results so far . Right now, he might be more of a side player in all of this. Hes not the only foreign visitor trying to forge a medic solution. At this hour, german chancellor Angela Merkel and the french president are in kiev and they brought with them a new ceasefire initiative. They did not provide details on the proposal itself. They had next to moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin directly who has offered up his own peace plan. This is their response and this will be Angela Merkels first visit to russia since 2013 with a goal to end the violence between the Government Forces and russian backed separatists. Fighting has escalated as the rebels mounted a new offensive stop the conflict has claimed more than 5000 lives. In his own meetings today, kerry says russian russia needs to ds goalie crisis. Russia and me separatists are seizing more territory, terrorizing more citize
President obama is in china for the asiapacific economic summit before heading to the g20 summit in brisbane, australia. Up next, discussion on u. S. Relations with china and what we can expect from the summit. This is 40 minutes. With president obama attending the asiapacific Economic Cooperation summit this week were joined at our desk by bonnie glasser. Remind us of the significance of he submit and what the president is trying to do. Guest president obama is attending the summit in beijing along with the leaders of 20 other economies, to talk about trade liberalization. This is an agenda of this organization that was created in 1989, to try and promote smoother investment and reduce tariffs on goods that are exchanged among all of these 21 economies. So, the president will attend this meeting, and then afterwards, he will have other meetings as well. He will talk to the heads of the other 11 nations that are negotiating the transpacific partner ship, new free trade agreement, very
Floor by senator casey just two weeks ago he and i and a half dozen other senators came to the floor in an unusual configuration, its not something that senators do all that often we came as a group, each spoke individually about our concerns with trade Promotion Authority and the Transpacific Partnership both the socalled fast track and the trade agreement thats being negotiated among the u. S. , canada mexico, and some pacific nations and peru, i believe, too and the nations in asia. And the concerns we have and the concerns that an increasing number of senators have about trade Promotion Authority about fast track they changed the name because they knew the public did not like fast track so they obscured it by coming up with some technical sounding term trade Promotion Authority and we see increasingly a public rising up against these trade agreements because weve watched them for 20 years weve seen the damage that the north American Free trade agreement did to the United States, to