Export Controls & Economic Sanctions – 2016
Together with the 2016 Trade Remedies Primer, we’ve prepared a basic outline of Canada’s Export Controls and Economic Sanctions, to explain in clear and, hopefully, in non-legalistic terms how the...
View ArticleTrump and Trade – Whither NAFTA
As we try to come to grips with all the implications of the Trump ascendency, there are some important points for Canada to contemplate when it comes to bilateral trade matters. First, Trump will move...
View ArticleOrder and Disorder in International Trade
“You’re going to pay a very large border tax”. That’s what President-elect Trump said at his January 11 news conference (if it can be called that) about US companies that manufacture abroad, repeating...
View ArticleBeyond NAFTA – A New Bilateral Trade Deal With the US?
I wrote an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail in January 2017, saying that a possible approach for Canada is to look beyond NAFTA as a three-way agreement and to consider a NEW BILATERAL TRADE DEAL...
View ArticleTweaking NAFTA – Bilateral Talks May Be Best
Further to the debate sparked by President Trump’s reference to “tweaking” NAFTA when it comes to Canada-US trade, I penned the following piece in the Globe and Mail Report on Business, 17 February...
View ArticleCanada and the American Challenge
Here is a memo on the various Canada-US trade issues as we move through 2017. The critical matter is the impending NAFTA re-negotiations. This memo provides a summary review of the challenges Canada...
View ArticleNAFTA and Beyond – Canadian Trade Strategies
As Canada enters the difficult and contentious NAFTA negotiations with the US, here are some thoughts in a Globe and Mail op-ed piece on some elements for Canada’s overall trade strategies, not...
View ArticleCanada’s NAFTA Strategies – Play Hardball
An op-ed piece of mine in the Globe and Mail Report on Business, outlined the implications of the USTR’s statement of the Trump administration’s NAFTA renegotiations and Canada’s possible response....
View ArticleNAFTA Options – Includes Canada Walking Away
Here is an op-ed of mine in the Globe and Mail Report on Business 22 August 2017, discussing the options for Canada in response to the aggressive “America First” approach by the Trump Administration...
View ArticleTrump, Trade and the Congress
Here is a piece of mine on the NAFTA situation and the interplay between the President and the US Congress when it comes to NAFTA re-negotiations, including the threat of US withdrawal. Trump Trade and...
View ArticleNAFTA SCENARIOS UNDER MR. TRUMP
Here are some comments on the various possibilities for Canada-US trade relations as we move into 2018, overlain with the threat of Mr. Trump terminating US adherence to the NAFTA. Regarding the...
View ArticleAssessing Trade-Related Risks
This article appeared as an op-ed commentary in the Toronto Globe & Mail Report on Business, 26 November 2019. It notes the shattering of the established global trade order and recommends more...
View ArticleNew US China Trade Deal-Betrayal of WTO Rules?
This is a commentary in the Report on Business on the recently-announced US-China trade deal, a short-term arrangement that, in my view, is contrary to the non-discrimination (MFN) rules in the WTO...
View ArticleSubmission to House of Commons Trade Committee
This is a copy of my submission to the Canadian House of Commons Trade Committee in advance of my testimony on February 20. 2020. I say that the task before the Committee in to bring Canadian laws into...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Crisis & Trump’s Export Controls
COVID-19 Crisis-Export Controls Not the Answer
View ArticleCUSMA – One Last Hurdle Remains
This was a commentary published in the Report on Business (Globe and Mail) on 8 April 2020. In the piece, I wonder why the Trump administration hasn’t provided the official notice needed to get the...
View ArticleFuture of the World Trade Organization
Some thoughts of mine in a commentary published by the Financial Post on May 19, 2020, suggesting a new post-pandemic agenda for the WTO, giving it a new item to tackle and helping to get it out of its...
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