NAFTA MEETING
October 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLAMERICAN, Canadian and Mexican textile industries may forge alliances with their colleagues in poorer central America to cope with increased worldwide competition resulting from the scrapping of WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing import quotas by 2005. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Commission has told its officials to explore the idea, following a meeting in Montreal attended by ministers from the three member countries. A resulting communiqué said they "discussed the impending liberalisation....and steps that could be ...
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