If there's a North American Union in the not-so-distant future between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico will...

Question

The Dominican Republic join them in the future? I mean the Caribbean is part of North America.

Answer 1

There are the-powers-that-be inside the USA which want the Caribbean *in* any possible North American Union....

Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados were going to join NAFTA back in 1993.  But they decided it would be better to join a hemispheric agreement (the Free Trade Area of the Americas.) Now that the FTAA never happend, Trinidad is once again wanting to enter a Free Trade Agreement with the United States....

But anyway, read this article about a group proposing that the office of the United States President should create a unit that is politically linked with CARICOM...

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Article: Push on Capitol Hill to boost US-Caricom ties

Date: posted 11-01-2007

Source: www.bilaterals.org - Bilaterals [dot] Org Online

Link: http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?i...

-- With the Democrats getting ready to take charge of Capitol Hill in Washington, a multifaceted initiative designed to boost economic and political ties between the United States and CARICOM has been placed on the table. It’s the brainchild of Manchester Trade, a private firm of international business advisors in Washington. --

Push on Capitol Hill to boost US-Caricom ties -- by Tony Best

Published on: 1/8/07.

WITH THE DEMOCRATS getting ready to take charge of Capitol Hill in Washington, a multifaceted initiative designed to boost economic and political ties between the United States and CARICOM has been placed on the table.

It’s the brainchild of Manchester Trade, a private firm of international business advisors in Washington. Its president, Stephen Lande, thinks that the linchpins of any approach would be a **White House**-level CARICOM consultative mechanism; Haiti’s admission to the Dominican Republic-US portion of the Central American Free Trade Agreement, CAFTA; and a delay in any attempt to negotiate a US-CARICOM free trade pact until after the African Caribbean Pacific Economic Partnership Agreements have been wrapped up with the European Union.

"We strongly support the adhesion of Haiti to the DR-US portion of CAFTA within a three-year period," Lande said in Miami recently.

"We believe the rest of CARICOM should wait until at least the end of the negotiations with the Economic Partnership Agreement before proceeding to consider an FTA with the United States. In the Interim, CARICOM should focus on establishing a special White House Chief of State/CARICOM Secretary-General level consultation mechanism with the authority to address and resolve problems before they become serious disputes and to undertake initiatives where necessary."

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The Caribbean region has already signed a SPP which Canada and Mexico did too recently (but the Caribbean signed theirs since1997)

CARIBBEAN/UNITED STATES SUMMIT PARTNERSHIP FOR PROSPERITY AND SECURITY IN THE CARIBBEAN Bridgetown, Barbados 10 May 1997

http://www.caricom.org/jsp/secretariat/l...

(quote)

BRIDGETOWN DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES

1.We, the Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean nations of Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the Commonwealth of Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, the Republic of Haiti, Jamaica, the Federation of St. Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the Republic of Suriname and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and of the United States of America, meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados on May 10, 1997, pledge to strengthen our cooperation in responding to the challenges of the coming millennium, in a spirit of partnership and mutual respect.

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So it *IS* possible that the Caribbean could adopt the US currency as their currency (like they already do.) and enter into a more enhanced Free Trade agreement with the USA Canada and Mexico...

Then again--, almost every country in CARICOM at some point in history has proposed entering into a political union with the Canadians...

Bahamas 1911

Barbados 1884 & 1958

Belize 1952

Bermuda 1949

The Commonwealth of Dominica in the 1960's

Jamaica 1870's

Nevis ~1996

Saint Lucia around WWI or WWII

Trinidad & Tobago 1952

Turks and Caicos 1974 & 1986

Such a poltical union between Canada and CARICOM could be the key toward such an agreement as well....  Joining the Canadian Federation as one or two Canadian provinces or so....

Answer 2

With all the real estate that Donald Trump is buying up in the D.R.... this will be a moot point when the Americas are all linked together because 'the' Donald will own most of the that half the island anyway.

Answer 3

We will all fall to the empire.

Or- as Buck65 put it a long time ago:

"the Dj Runs Around Telling People That I'm Sinister and Wishes That Darth Vader Was The Prime Minister."

Answer 4

Probably not. you are on an island lol its not exactly part or a significant part of america

Answer 5

The USA as a partner will not be very interesting for the Dominican Republic, they have to look to Europe, much

better and stronger economy.

Answer 6

I don't think the USA want to join a Union with other North American Countries (or Central Americal, as I consider the Caribbean as Central America). It won't be beneficial at all for the US.