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  1. 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 ...

  2. Storm clouds on the horizon better than storm clouds overhead

    As 2018 draws to its end, there are dark clouds on the horizon. Interest rate increases spooking the stock market, the continuing trade skirmish between the United States and China (which threatens to become an all-out trade war almost ...

  3. NAFTA renegotiations—a missed opportunity for Canada

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, November 19, 2018 For more than a year, Trudeau government officials grappled with the Trump administration to strike a trade deal that, according to the prime minister, was good for Canadians. In reality, however, the ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement: Overview and Outlook

    The US-Mexico-Canada Agreement replaces NAFTA as the legal North American trade and investment regime. It will be implemented after ratification by each government. Ratification in the US by a likely newly elected Democratic Congress is probable, ...

  6. New trade deal increases American sway over Canada

    Appeared in the Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal, October 13, 2018 The great vociferous North American trade negotiations are finally over, and while the deal could still be derailed by the coming November mid-term elections in the United States, it’s very ...

  7. Green handwringing over new North American trade pact

    Environmentalists are wringing their hands over the new he United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), in part because the Trudeau government did not get what it wanted for environmental protections. Early in the process, Foreign ...

  8. ‘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 ...

  9. 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 ...

  10. Trudeau government should concede on key NAFTA issues for the benefit of most Canadians

    Appeared in National Newswatch, September 29, 2018 According to U.S. officials, if Canada does not reach a deal with the United States for a trilateral NAFTA pact by September 30, Washington will proceed with a Mexico-only agreement, leaving Canada out in ...