In what year did Canada enact free trade with the United States?
- 1931
- 1949
- 1988
- 2020
Answer: 1988
Canada enacted free trade with the United States in 1988. Mexico joined in 1994 under the broader North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was replaced by CUSMA in 2020. Remember the order: the U.S. first in 1988, then Mexico in 1994.
Learn more: Free trade, NAFTA and the G7
- 1988: Canada enacted free trade with the United States.
- 1994: Mexico joined, in the broader North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
- 2020: CUSMA replaced NAFTA.
- Canada is a member of the G7 group of leading industrialized countries.
- G7 members: Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. Discover Canada says G8 because Russia was a member until 2014.
- After the Second World War, trade treaties such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), now the World Trade Organization (WTO), opened up world trade.