Abstract
The agreement NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) defines a free trade area of 430 million inhabitants trained by the United States, Canada and Mexico. Signed by the presidents of these three countries on October 7th, 1992 in San Antonio (Texas), the treaty came into effect on January 1st, 1994. This agreement is intended to facilitate the trades and the investments between the partners. It includes a vast program of elimination of the customs duties and reduction of the non-tariff barriers. NAFTA comes along with measures relative to the investment, to the services, to the intellectual property, to the competition and to the regulation of the various trades and investments.
