To date, nearly 700,000 U.S. jobs have been lost or displaced since NAFTA took effect in 1994, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute The main reason for the job loss is a skyrocketing U.S. trade deficit with Mexico—reaching $66 billion in 2010. To put that in perspective, in 1993, one year before NAFTA was implemented, the United States had a $1.6 billion trade surplus with Mexico.



