{"title":"The Five-Year Effect of NAFTA on Pennsylvania","authors":"Paul Kengor, R. C. Phinney","doi":"10.15367/com.v12i1.507","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Pennsylvania since the agreement's enactment on January 1, 1994. It does so by examining export statistics related to Pennsylvania as a whole as well as to several key regions within the state. As judged by these export statistics, NAFTA's impact on Pennsylvania has been quite positive. At the very least, increases in exports from Pennsylvania since NAFTA's enactment have been so strong that critics of the agreement will be hard-pressed in making a case against it.","PeriodicalId":46038,"journal":{"name":"COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.15367/com.v12i1.507","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article explores the effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Pennsylvania since the agreement's enactment on January 1, 1994. It does so by examining export statistics related to Pennsylvania as a whole as well as to several key regions within the state. As judged by these export statistics, NAFTA's impact on Pennsylvania has been quite positive. At the very least, increases in exports from Pennsylvania since NAFTA's enactment have been so strong that critics of the agreement will be hard-pressed in making a case against it.
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Long established as the leading publication in its field, the journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics contains scholarly articles which both report original research on the politics of Commonwealth countries and relate their findings to issues of general significance for students of comparative politics. The journal also publishes work on the politics of other states where such work is of interest for comparative politics generally or where it enables comparisons to be made with Commonwealth countries.