To provide for the withdrawal of the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Bill: 113-hr-156
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2013-01-04
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Canada

Congressional oversight

Free trade and trade barriers

Latin America

Mexico

North America

Trade agreements and negotiations
Latest action: action_date: 2013-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-01-04
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Withdraws Congress's approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).</p> <p>Directs the President to provide written notice of the withdrawal to the governments of Canada and Mexico.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 156 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 4, 2013 Mr. McIntyre introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To provide for the withdrawal of the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

1. Withdrawal of the United States from the NAFTA (a) Withdrawal of approval Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the approval of the NAFTA by the Congress provided for in section 101(a) of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act shall cease to be effective beginning on the date that is six months after the date of the enactment of this Act. (b) Notification of withdrawal On the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall provide to the Governments of Canada and Mexico written notice of withdrawal of the United States from the NAFTA in accordance with Article 2205 of the NAFTA. (c) NAFTA defined In this section, the term NAFTA means the North American Free Trade Agreement entered into between the United States, Canada, and Mexico on December 17, 1992.