Old Wine in New Bottles? An Overview of Two Centuries of Free Trade between the United States and Canada

Abstract

On February 5, 2003 the Maine International Trade Center and University of Maine Canadian American Center co-sponsored a day-long forum on the challenges and opportunities of free trade between Canada and the United States. This article presents the edited remarks of Scott See who gave audience members a whirlwind overview of the history of Canadian-American free trade from the Revolutionary War era up to passage of the Free Trade Agreement in 1989.