On the Scene: NAFTA: Can Clinton Lead?

Washington, D.C.

BACK IN JUNE, Lee Hamilton (D., Ind.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, complained that the White House was not doing enough to fight for the North American Free Trade Agreement, the trade pact that would link the economies of Canada, the U.S., and Mexico: “NAFTA will be a lost cause if the campaign for it does not begin soon and in earnest.” In the months since, the White House has done nothing. Though President Clinton, like Presidents Reagan and Bush before him, presents the accord as a vital first step in building a hemispheric free-trade zone, his words have yet to be matched by action.

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Washington, D.C.

BACK IN JUNE, Lee Hamilton (D., Ind.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, complained that the White House was not doing enough to fight for the North American Free Trade Agreement, the trade pact that would link the economies of Canada, the U.S., and Mexico: “NAFTA will be a lost cause if the campaign for it does not begin soon and in earnest.” In the months since, the White House has done nothing. Though President Clinton, like Presidents Reagan and Bush before him, presents the accord as a vital first step in building a hemispheric free-trade zone, his words have yet to be matched by action.