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1. Congressional voting on USMCA underscores influence of interest groups

   Journalists and pollsters regularly note that many Americans do not believe their elected representatives respect the interests of their constituencies. For example, a 2018 Quinnipiac University poll showed that 76 per cent of Americans ...

2. Canadian cheers over pending USMCA may be short-lived

   After months of negotiations and the insertion of new enforcement provisions that provide for U.S. monitoring of Mexico’s labour-market practices, with penalties for non-compliance, U.S. House Democrats announced this week they had ...

3. Canada can’t escape Trump administration’s war on trade

   In the U.S. economic war with China, President Trump raised the stakes last week, with a 10 per cent tariff on an additional $300 billion of imported Chinese products. Tariffs on imports are only one weapon Trump has employed in his ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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, ...