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It is said that George H. W. Bush proposed to Carlos Salinas the negotiation of a bilateral treaty during the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 1990, similar to what the United States signed with Canada in 1988 and which came into force a year later. Other sources indicate that Salinas made the proposal in a telephone call in the middle of that year. When both countries agreed to conduct the negotiation, the B…