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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 ...
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Some good news for Canada—the U.S. follows its own trade rules
The initial U.S. Department of Commerce decision in October to levy tariff duties of almost 300 per cent on Bombardier’s CSeries jets sold in the U.S. became a major flashpoint in bilateral trade relations and cast an additional pall on ...
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Exchange rates can overreact to news reports including NAFTA buzz
This week a report stating that the Canadian government is increasingly convinced that President Trump will pull the United States out of NAFTA was credited with causing the Canadian dollar to drop from a closing value on Jan. 9 of US$ ...
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Despite predictable opposition, pending trade deals would benefit Canada
At the top of her agenda, Chrystia Freeland (pictured above), Canada’s new Minister of International Trade, plans to work with Parliament to ratify two important treaties that reduce existing barriers to free trade—the Comprehensive ...