US-Canada Free Trade Agreement as an Example of Regional Tendencies in the Trade Policy of the 80’s

The above paper aims at discussing main principles of the US-Canada FTA and evaluation of its functioning from the point of view of the Canadian part. The agreement was presented on the background of current trade policy tendencies in the world economy. The paper consists of three parts. The first on which is in fact the general introduction, presents the notion of a trading bloc. The next part introduces the trade policy of the 80’s and the 90’s pointing at the tendency of emergence of new economic and political regions. This is folloved by the presentation of the US-Canada FTA as such and its functioning. It is worth adding that the appraisl of the agreement is a subjective one.Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 zostało dofinansowane ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej nauk