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Never mind Toddster, I was bored and found it myself. Looks like poor, dear Mojave was a little too quick on the trigger:

December 17, 1992: NAFTA is signed by U.S. President George H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
December 8, 1993: NAFTA is signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton.

So, we are left with two alternatives: 1. President Clinton and Congress were able to add unnegotiated (think about that for a minute) provisions to NAFTA in the space of the year that Congress was also ratifying it (this is Mojave's version of events), or 2. separate negotiations concerning the environment and whatnot occurred during the Clinton Administration beginning in 1993 until 1994 when NAFTA took effect (my version of events, based on about 30 minutes of research).

The second and more likely possibility leads us to an interesting observation: poor, dear Mojave is taking the parallel agreements/codicils/whatever that Clinton initiated, mixing them with the concluded negotiations of Reagan and Bush 41, and claiming that Reagan would not have approved of the work-product of his own Administration and the following Administration of his own Vice President.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to pick the above apart. I'm interested in where you think I might be wrong.

So, we are left with two alternatives: 1. President Clinton and Congress were able to add unnegotiated (think about that for a minute) provisions to NAFTA in the space of the year that Congress was also ratifying it (this is Mojave's version of events), or 2. separate negotiations concerning the environment and whatnot occurred during the Clinton Administration beginning in 1993 until 1994 when NAFTA took effect (my version of events, based on about 30 minutes of research).

And then there is the third alternative: 3. "Before the negotiations were finalized, Bill Clinton came into office in the U.S. and Kim Campbell in Canada, and before the agreement became law, Jean Chrétien had taken office in Canada."

Of course, the third alternative, which took about 30 seconds to research, was beyond your comprehension.

At least you've finally learned, a mere 15+ years after the law was passed, that is was President Bill Clinton, not President Ronald Reagan, that signed the greenest trade agreement ever written into law. Your mountain of ignorance is one grain of sand smaller.