What impact does the North American Free Trade Agreement have on relations between countries in North America?
A) NAFTA regulates and enforces protections for workers to ensure that they have safe working environments and fair wages.
B) NAFTA eliminates tariffs and trade restrictions, facilitating export and import between countries in North America.
C) NAFTA sets up regulations limiting industrial pollution in all three countries, ensuring the costs of manufacturing are similar in each country.
D) NAFTA eliminates trade restrictions on products from embargoed countries.
Question 2
One of the major advantages of maquiladoras for American companies is what?
A) They are able to hire Mexican workers for much lower wages than they would have to pay American workers.
B) These areas subscribe to no country's laws on pollution.
C) These areas often have lax child-labor laws which allow workers as young as 12 to work in factories.
D) Companies in these areas have to pay no corporate income tax.
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