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1. Trump tariff threat highlights fundamental change in Canada-U.S. relations

   Another international meeting, this time the recent NATO summit in London, ended with President Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau exhibiting their basic distaste for each other’s governance style and personality (in case you missed it, ...

2. Trump’s tariff tactics will end badly for U.S.—and Canada

   Mexican and U.S. officials announced they would meet on June 5 to try to defuse a major trade conflict after President Trump announced a five per cent tariff on all products imported from Mexico, to take effect June 10. The threat has ...

3. Slowdown of world economic growth would likely reduce demand for Canadian resource exports

   In March, President Trump increased tariffs on US$200 billion worth of Chinese goods, escalating the trade dispute between the United States and China. He also initiated steps to put 25 per cent tariffs on an additional $340 billion of ...

4. Supply management—the Grinch that stole Christmas 

   If Canadians were free to import from the U.S. without paying tariffs, a frozen turkey would cost 15 per cent less. ...

5. A split Congress may increase uncertainty surrounding Canada’s trade environment

   This week’s midterm elections in the United States were the most expensive (in terms of candidate expenditures) and featured the largest voter turnout for any midterm election in U.S. history, as many observers saw it as a referendum on ...

6. Nordhaus, the Nobel, Harper, economics and populism

   Trade is good for both countries, but not everyone in both countries benefits from trade. ...

7. ‘Six months’ notice’ and The Art of the Squeeze

   Brian Mulroney: Mr. Turner, with a document that is cancellable on six months’ notice? Be serious… Please, be serious. John Turner: Well I have never been more serious in my life. Brian Mulroney: Please, please. That was the final ...

8. New trade pact mixed bag for Canadians

   The long-running soap opera that was the NAFTA renegotiations has ended—at least for now. At the last minute before President Trump’s September 30 midnight deadline, Canadian and U.S. negotiators finalized an agreement that expands an ...

9. Supply management increases prices, reduces range of milk and other dairy products

   When the Australian market was deregulated in 2000, the average price farmers received for raw milk almost doubled. ...

10. Foisting 19th century trade policy on our modern world is simply wrong

    Anyone trying to understand or explain the Trump administration’s international trade policy is often forced to conclude that his focus on trade deficits and domestic production is really an expression of mercantilism—a trade philosophy ...