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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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Canada's trade hurdle—it's all about supply management
Appeared in the Vancouver Province, September 4, 2018 Last week, the United States and Mexico reached an agreement in principle on a new free trade arrangement, and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland heads back to Washington this week in an effort ...
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Memo for President Trump—Canada runs a trade deficit with the U.S.
President Donald Trump issued a bizarre pronouncement this week—that Canada engages in smooth diplomatic trickery when it comes to trade relations with the United States. At a meeting with U.S. governors at the White House, the president ...
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Canada can’t dodge two ‘trade’ bullets shot from the U.S.
At this writing, the odds that Hillary Clinton will defeat Donald Trump for the U.S. presidency are very high. If your concern is trade between Canada and the United States, Canada dodged a bullet. Donald Trump is hostile to trade, ...
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Debunking the Myths: A Review of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and the North America Free Trade Agreement
Although the merits of free trade are widely accepted by economists and policy makers, criticism of free trade as sound economic policy is still widespread. In both Canada and the United States, critics of free trade attract substantial public attention. ...
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Assessing NAFTA: A Trinational Analysis
This book contains a comprehensive assessment of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Authors from all three countries probe different aspects of the deal; they provide an overall assessment as well as detailed examinations of some of the critical ...
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NAFTA and the Environment
Liberalizing trade through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and similar regional treaties raises hopes for increased prosperity for the Western hemisphere. A united North American marketplace would have a combined purchasing power of more ...