Buy American Challenges
This is a short piece issued by the C. D. Howe Institute, Toronto, regarding the Buy American policies of president-elect Biden and the potential challenges these kind of preference have for Canadian...
View ArticleSeven Trade Moves to Watch For Under Joe Biden
This is a Globe and Mail (Toronto) column, 12 November 2020, reviewing some of the key trade policy issues likely to percolate to the surface as between Canada and the US under Joe Biden’s presidency....
View ArticleCanadian Trade Laws – Need for More Surgical Use
This memo issued by the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) looks at certain American trade laws and whether Canada could use some of these US models more effectively, to the benefit of open...
View Article2021 Trade Priorities: Make CUSMA Work & Fix the WTO
This is a comment of mine, printed in the Financial Post on 15 December 2020, with some recommendations for 2021 for those ministers in the Trudeau government in charge of Canadian trade policy,...
View ArticleChina’s Security Challenge
This is a commentary published by The Hill Times on 10 December 2020. It deals with resources Canada can employ to confront the security risk posed by Huawei and other Chinese enterprizes seeking to...
View ArticleKeystone XL Is Dead – It’s Now a Question of Compensation
This is a column of mine in the Globe and Mail (Toronto), 25 January 2021, about the Keystone XL permit cancellation, commenting on how calls for Canadian “sanctions” or “retaliation” made by the...
View ArticleEU-China Investment Treaty Raises Concerns
This comment deals with the legal and geopolitical ramifications of the recent EU-China investment treaty. It notes that Canada also has an investment agreement with China, concluded at a different...
View ArticleBibliography – Publications, Articles, Papers (1978-2021)
This is a listing of Lawrence Herman’s published articles, etc. over the last 40 or so years. A selection of newspaper columns and editorial comments are included here. Bibliography-current to Feb 2021
View ArticleHow Should Canada Respond to Biden’s Buy American Policies?
Here is my commentary – published by the MacDonald-Laurier Institute, 25 February 2021 – on the various aspects of President Biden’s new Buy American policies and their implications for Canadian...
View ArticleWorld Trade Organization-Comment on its Many Challenges
This is an opinion piece published in the Globe and Mail, 3 March 2021. It comments on two main institutional factors that will impact on the future of the WTO, noting these are among the many...
View ArticleReshoring Initiative Targets Behaviours, Not Laws
This is an opinion piece of mine in the Globe & Mail (Toronto), 20 April 2021, commenting on how private sector actions – such as guidelines, standards and certifications – can affect international...
View ArticleTrends in Global Governance
This is an overview of the major global governance trends – treaties, governmentally-endorsed business practices and, especially, private sector standards and actions. The latter isn’t largely...
View ArticleSanctions in International Trade
This is my comment in the 27 September 2021 Globe & Mail (Toronto) about the growing use of unilateral trade & economic sanctions, a major feature of global commerce in the 21st centuty....
View ArticleGovernment Advisories & their Global Trade Impact
This commentary in the Globe & Mail, 5 August 2021, deals with the increased significance of government advisories – not legally binding, but having an important effect in the world of...
View ArticleWTO in Limbo – What Next?
WTO In Limbo – Options for Western Countries A commentary on the emergence of the OECD as the most viable institution to conclude new multilateral rules, standards even binding agreements in face of...
View ArticleSanctions – Embedded in the Structure of Global Trade
The Ukraine war has resulted in a huge array of Western sanctions, extraordinarily coordinated, that will be a lasting element in the global trading order. This opinion piece in the Globe in May 2022...
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