The irony behind NAFTA's reality

The NAFTA agreement is to stimulate trade between agreement member countries.

We buy their merchandise and they buy ours, sounds good.

But what happened? It seems that our manufactures realized that labor was cheaper in many member countries and without trade restrictions and tariffs, they could move their companies to these locations and ship their products as NAFTA merchandise.

It seems that their merchandise is actually our merchandise produced at their lesser costs and sold here at our costs.

The end result is we lose manufacturing jobs and pay premium prices for merchandise cheaply manufactured.

John Culloton

Chicago