TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anastakis,Dimitry
TI  - Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971 
SN  - 9780802038210
AV  - HD9710.C22 
U1  - 338.4/7629222097309046 
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Automobile industry and trade
KW  - Canada
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - Duty-free importation of automobiles
KW  - Coursebook
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Automobile Industry
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - The 1965 Canada-United States Automotive Trade agreement fundamentally reshaped relations between the automotive business and the state in both countries and represented a significant step toward the creation of an integrated North American economy. Breaking from previous conceptions of the agreement as solely a product of intergovernmental negotiation, Dimitry Anastakis's Auto Pact argues that the 'big three' auto companies played a pivotal role - and benefited immensely - in the creation and implementation of this new automotive regime. With the border effectively erased by the agreement, the pact transformed these giant enterprises into truly global corporations.Drawing from newly released archival sources, Anastakis demonstrates that, for Canada's automotive policy makers, continentalism was a form of economic nationalism. Although the deal represented the end of any notion of an indigenous Canadian automotive industry, significant economic gains were achieved for Canadians under the agreement. Anastakis provides a fresh and alternative view of the auto pact that places it firmly within contemporary debates about the nature of free trade as well as North American - and, indeed, global - integration. Far from being a mere artefact of history, the deal was a forebearer to what is now known as 'globalization.'
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442687387
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442687387/original
ER  -