International Mobility Program: North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

The NAFTA seeks to liberalize trade between the U.S., Mexico and Canada and abolish tariffs and other trade barriers. The Agreement opens up the three countries’ markets by ensuring that future laws will not create barriers to doing business.

In order for the trade to expand, individuals must have access to each other’s country to sell, provide goods or services or trade and invest. Chapter 16 of the NAFTA, entitled “Temporary Entry for Business Persons”, provides the mechanisms to allow selected categories of temporary workers access to each other’s market(s).