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Excerpt from Agricultural Trade With Mexico: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, July 22, 1993
Nowhere in the text, or the footnotes or the annexes of nafta is there any prece dure for a state to intervene to protect or explain its laws, should those laws be challenged under nafta. One of the public policy choices our North Dakota people have made is to ban corporate farming and this ban has been upheld at the u.s. Supreme Court. As I read nafta, if a Canadian or Mexican life insurance corpora tion wanted to invest in North Dakota farm land, our law could be challenged. And if it were challenged, the state has no means to directly defend it.
In my office we have a program called Pride of Dakota which promotes the sale of North Dakota made products. This program as well is subject to challenge as an advantage based on domestic content and we have no means to protect it. The list could go on to cover a variety of sound, progressive state laws and regulations that could be snuffed out by a secret nafta dispute panel.
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