Abstract
The Canada-US Free-Trade Agreement, negotiated in 1987 and widely debated in Canada in 1988, has the potential for significant impact on the health of Canadian industrial technology development and diffusion. This paper views the motives for the initiative, considers some overall points of assessment, then provides a Canadian perspective on the implications of the FTA for science and technology development and diffusion. A summary assessment is that the FTA made some big steps forward in the traditional area of tariff reductions and small steps in several other areas. The two countries failed, however, to agree on the important areas of subsidies and intellectual property.
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