1993年11月发生了两件对世界经济格局将产生深远影响的事件。首先是美国众议院和参议院分别在该月的17日与20日通过了北美自由贸易协定(NAFTA),接着墨西哥参议院于22日通过了该协定。NAFTA 终于以法律的形式确定下来,标志着一个世界上最大的自由贸易区即将建立,它拥有2100多万平方公里的面积,3.6亿人口,年 GNP 达6万多亿美元。另一件是11月17-20日在美国西雅 In November 1993, two incidents of far-reaching impact on the world economic pattern took place. The first is that the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate passed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the 17th and 20th of that month, respectively, and the Mexican Senate passed the agreement on the 22nd. NAFTA was finally established in the form of law, marking the forthcoming establishment of one of the largest free trade areas in the world. It boasts an area of ​​more than 21 million square kilometers and a population of 360 million with a GNP of more than 6 trillion U.S. dollars. Another is November 17-20 in Seattle, the United States