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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824672303321

Autore

Hart Michael <1944->

Titolo

Decision at midnight [[electronic resource] ] : inside the Canada-U.S. free-trade negotiations / / Michael Hart, with Bill Dymond and Colin Robertson ; foreword by Donald Macdonald, with cartoons by Alan King

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c1994

ISBN

0-7748-5412-X

9786613225511

1-283-22551-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (473 p.)

Collana

Canada and international relations ; v. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

DymondBill <1943->

RobertsonColin <1954->

Disciplina

382/.971073

Soggetti

Free trade - Canada

Free trade - United States

Canada Commercial treaties

United States Commercial treaties

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Charts and Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- The Fork in the Road -- Setting the Stage -- Policy Origins -- No Anchor, No Rudder, No Compass: The us Setting -- Preparing the Way -- Reaching a Decision -- Forging Ahead -- Getting Ready -- Negotiating an Agreement -- The Summer of Innocence -- The Fall of Impatience -- The Winter of Discontent -- Spring Again: Moving Rocks -- The Summer of Despair -- Impasse in September -- The Real Thing -- What had Gone Wrong? -- A Near Run Thing -- The Lawyers Take Over -- Conclusions: A Good AgreementĀ¹ -- Notes -- Chronology of the Canada-Us Free-Trade Negotiations -- Glossary of Trade and Related Terms -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Credits -- Index -- About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

On 2 January 1988, Canada and the United States signed what was then the most comprehensive free trade agreeement the world had ever seen. This book is the story of those FTA negotiations, the preparations for and conduct of the negotiations, as well as the ideas and issues



behind them. From their unique perspective as participants, Michael Hart, Bill Dymond, and Colin Robertson capture the drama and the personalities involved in the long struggle to make a free trade deal. They describe the extensive consultations, the turf-fighting among insiders, the innate caution of both politicians and bureaucrats, and the need to cultivate powerful constituencies in order to overcome the inertia of conventional wisdom.