(NAFTA is currently being renegotiated,but was still in force at the beginning of 2019.) Suppose the Canadian government imposed more stringent environmental regulations on U.S.-owned pulp and paper mills than on Canadian-owned mills.This practice would be a violation of

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The practice of imposing more stringent environmental regulations on U.S.-owned pulp and paper mills than on Canadian-owned mills would violate the NAFTA principle of national treatment, which requires that each member country treat the investors of the other member countries no less favorably than it treats its own investors. This means that Canadian-owned mills and U.S.-owned mills should be subject to the same regulations regardless of their ownership nationality.

(NAFTA Is Currently Being Renegotiated,but Was Still in Force at the Beginning