THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
RETRIEVING THE NAFTA DOCUMENTS
WHAT IS AVAILABLE -- AND HOW?
Information on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is available both electronically, in print and in CD-ROM. Please note that some information varies at each site and can include daily updates from the White House, press releases and briefings, background information, and reports.
As additional documents and retrieval sources become available, we will update this factsheet.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Retrieving an electronic version -- at no charge
A. Retrieval via electronic bulletin board
B. Retrieval via electronic mail
C. Retrieval via gopher and telnet
D. Retrieval via anonymous-ftp
E. Retrieval via state-of-the-art access methods
II. Retrieving electronic versions -- for a fee.
- CDROM
- Commercial Services
III. Retrieving a paper copy -- for a fee.
IV. Retrieving Notes via fax -- free of charge
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The most up-to-date version of this document can be obtained by sending mail to:
nafta@ace.esusda.gov.
Do not place any text in the body of the message.
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I. RETRIEVING AN ELECTRONIC VERSION -- NO CHARGE
A - VIA ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS
Set software parameters for: N-8-1
Dial: (9600 baud) 703-321-8020
B - VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
The NAFTA report is divided into sections. This allows you to select sections of interest.
To retrieve all or part of the NAFTA report via email, send one or more of the lower-case commands listed below on the right, to:
almanac@ace.esusda.gov
TO RETRIEVE: TYPE:
List of all NAFTA documents
released on 9/29/93 send nafta catalog
List of all NAFTA-related
Press Releases, since 4/93 send nafta-press catalog
List of daily NAFTA Notes from
the White House send nafta-notes catalog
C - VIA GOPHER AND/OR TELNET
To get to this gopher, type:
gopher ace.esusda.gov
>>From the Main Menu, choose:
5. Americans Communicating Electronically/...
5. North American Free Trade Agreement/
1. 1993 North American Free....
2) gopher sunsite.unc.edu (University of North Carolina)
To get to this gopher, type:
gopher sunsite.unc.edu
>>From the Univ. North Carolina Main Menu, choose:
Sunsite Archives
US and World Politics/
International Affairs
Browse the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
Search NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) <?>
3) telnet sunsite.unc.edu (University of North Carolina)
Type: telnet sunsite.unc.edu
Login as: gopher
Choose menu options:
Sunsite Archives
US and World Politics/
International Affairs
Browse the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)/
Search NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) <?>
4) telnet fedworld.gov (National Technical Info. Service)
Type: telnet fedworld.gov
(IP address: 192.239.92.201)
Files located in:
w-house library
NAFTA Notes are stored using the following file-naming conventions:
<release-date>NAF.txt
Example:
0924NAF.txt
You can also do a keyword search for "NAF" to retrieve press
releases, Notes and any additional information.
For further info on FedWorld, call: 703-487-4648.
5) telnet ebb.stat-usa.gov (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
Type: telnet ebb.stat-usa.gov
Login as: trial (not "guest"!)
This Economic Bulletin Board is available via telnet,
temporarily at no charge.
For information, call:
202-482-1986
D - VIA ANONYMOUS-FTP
The NAFTA documents are available by anonymous ftp at the University of North Carolina. Open that site as follows:
TYPE:
To open the ftp site: ftp sunsite.unc.edu
To login: anonymous
To send a password: <your email address>
To reach the proper directory:
cd /pub/academic/economics
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E - STATE-OF-THE-ART ACCESS (University of North Carolina)
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On their gopher menu, the University of North Carolina
provides access to WAIS full-text indexing of the
NAFTA report.
via gopher sunsite.unc.edu
Sunsite Archives
US and World Politics/
International Affairs
Browse the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
Search NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) <?>
Get NAFTA.src from the directory of
WAIS servers.
2) WORLD-WIDE-WEB: (University of North Carolina)
Yes! The report is available in hypertext at North Carolina!!
Access this collection of multimedia, hypertext files using
clients such as Mosaic.
Begin at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/unchome.html
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II. RETRIEVING AN ELECTRONIC VERSION -- FOR A FEE
The NAFTA documents may also be retrieved for a fee from several commercial services. These services are listed here for informational purposes only, and not to recommend or promote any of the services.
A - CD-ROM
Some information on NAFTA, including the full-text of the 1992 agreement and various reports, is available for archive and research purposes on the National Trade Data Bank (NTB-DB) and the National Economic, Social and Environmental Data Bank (NESE-DB) CD-ROMs produced by the Dept. of Commerce.
There is a fee charged for each disk.
<Also available for free public access in 860 federal
depository libraries located throughout the U.S.>
To order, contact:
Office of Business Analysis
Room H4884
Department of Commerce
Washington, DC 20230
Phone: 202-482-1986
Fax: 202-482-2164
B - COMMERCIAL SERVICES
We anticipate that the NAFTA documents will also be
available on the EBB as they are issued. EBB subscribers may
obtain the complete report for less than $5.00. Nonsubscribers
may subscribe for $35 and receive full access to the report for
no additional charge and obtain access to over 2,000 files covering
current economic and business news issues by the U.S. Government.
Call 202-482-1986 for more information.
See pol.govinfo.usa
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III. RETRIEVING A PAPER COPY -- FOR A FEE
Currently there are no printed versions available at no charge.
A - FROM THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE (GPO)
Call: 202-783-3238
B - FROM NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICE (NTIS)
Call: 703-487-4650
Has a collection of printed material on NAFTA, including
a 5-volume set of the 1992 Agreement.
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IV. RETRIEVING NOTES VIA FAX
Flash Facts is an automated information system available 7-days-a-week, 24-hours-a-day. Call from a touch-tone phone and receive printed material to your fax, from the Department of Commerce's library.
Call: 202-482-4464.
There is no charge for this service.
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For more information, send email to: info@ace.esusda.gov and you will be sent information on ACE