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| | | Resolve, To Study the Effects of NAFTA and Other |
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| | | Cross-border Issues on Maine Businesses |
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| | | Sec. 1. Study effects of NAFTA. Resolved: That the Department of | | Economic and Community Development and the Executive Department, | | State Planning Office shall jointly study the effects of the | | North American Free Trade Agreement, or "NAFTA," on Maine small | | businesses throughout the State. The study must include, but is | | not limited to, the positive and negative effects of NAFTA on | | imports and exports in general with particular attention to: |
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| | | 1. Imports and other cross-border commerce; |
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| | | 2. Metal products and steel fabrication industry; |
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| | | 3. Natural resource-based industries; and |
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| | | 4. Manufactured housing and home building industries; and be | | it further |
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| | | Sec. 2. Report. Resolved: That on or before October 31, 2003, the | | Department of Economic and Community Development and the | | Executive Department, State Planning Office shall submit to the | | Legislature a joint report summarizing the results of the study, | | including, but not limited to, information on jobs created and | | jobs lost in the State due to NAFTA and businesses created and | | businesses closed in the State due to NAFTA; and be it further |
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| | | Sec. 3. Legislation. Resolved: That on or before November 14, 2003 the | | Department of Economic and Community Development may submit | | legislation resulting from the study to the Legislature that | | would: |
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