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1. William Watson: War with Wallonia averted! National treatment survives! (maybe)

   In the part of the Wealth of Nations where he talks about buying goods from neighbouring countries if they can produce them more cheaply than we can—“What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of ...

2. 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, ...

3. Renewed softwood lumber dispute may fan U.S. protectionist flames in other industries

   While Canadian and U.S. trade officials negotiate a new softwood lumber agreement (a one-year “standstill” period expired last week), Canadian officials have privately indicated that the price of an agreement demanded by the Americans is ...

4. Growing U.S. protectionism threatens Canada’s forestry industry

   A tentative deal between Canada and the United States on softwood lumber expired at midnight on Oct. 12. The ongoing softwood lumber war between Canada and the U.S. is largely due to American economic protectionism, or more precisely, ...

5. Clinton and Trump—similar policy prescriptions that may not bode well for the U.S. or Canada

   The highly contentious presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump often seems less about policy and more about trading insults, personal attacks and generally being unpleasant. This was particularly true in Sunday& ...

6. Trump advisor's 'China' documentary reveals possible direction of U.S. economic policy

   Peter Navarro, a professor of economics at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine, is the only academic economist on Donald Trump’s economic advisory team. Unusual for an economist, Navarro has written ...

7. History is clear—high tariffs and trade wars devastate countries

   Canada raised tariffs in the 1930s and sunk into the Great Depression. ...

8. Trump and Clinton ignore economic freedom during first presidential debate

   On Monday, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton squared off in perhaps the most highly anticipated presidential debate in history. As the candidates went back and forth for 90 minutes, a major theme of past presidential debates and indeed of ...

9. Softwood lumber trade dispute beginning to boil again

   When Prime Minister Trudeau and President Obama met in Ottawa at the end of June, they apparently reached no agreement about how to handle a file that has been an ongoing source of conflict between Canada and the United States since 1982 ...

10. Trump continues to hammer NAFTA, and if elected, could likely terminate the agreement

    Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been a relentless critic of NAFTA since the beginning of his presidential campaign. His official position is that he will demand a renegotiation of the terms of NAFTA to get “a lot better ...