Research on the "Cost of non-Europe" : basic findings; Volume 16: The Internal Markets of North America; Fragmentation and Integration in the US and Canada

The present paper aims to analyze the nature of the Internal Market of the USA, with special attention for its remaining fragmentation, and that of Canada, with its fragmentation too, as well as the nature and scope of non-tariff barriers and other distortions discussed in the Canada-US free trade area talks. A second objective is to come to an assessment of costs and benefits of the barriers inside the two Internal Markets of the USA and Canada, respectively, as well as the costs and benefits of the Canada-US free trade area for the Canadian economy.