The new deal reportedly jettisons environmental obligations that were part of the last four U.S. trade deals.
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September 4, 2018
12:10PM
Canada has less leverage with U.S. negotiators now than before the U.S.-Mexico deal.
March 2, 2018
5:00AM
The services sector creates the majority of income in the United States.
August 16, 2017
2:49PM
Trade creates cheaper goods for Ontario families and businesses.
October 24, 2016
1:09PM
A mercantilist policy that simple-mindedly favours exports and discourages imports inevitably ends up suppressing real wages.
October 24, 2016
3:05AM
Donald Trump doesn’t understand the benefits of trade, and Hillary Clinton has criticized trade on the campaign trail.
May 2, 2016
4:09PM
Those behind the plan are central planners at heart, mistakenly seeing themselves as the initiators of trade.
March 18, 2014
3:00AM
If Canadians need a reason to support the just-announced free trade agreement with South Korea, here are a few hundred million: every year, Canadians pay hundreds of millions of dollars in hidden taxes on imported automobiles and auto-related products. At least some of those hidden taxes are in the form of tariffs applied to imports from South Korea.