Category Archives: Negotiations

New Low in Canada-US Relations

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Neighbourly relations with the U.S. are over

GLOBE & MAIL 31 May 2018 LAWRENCE L. HERMAN © 2018 Former Canadian diplomat, practices international trade law at Herman & Associates and is a Senior Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto. The Trump administration’s announcement of punitive tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum yesterday means we’re into a full-blown economic and… Read More »

An Illuminating (but Short) History of Canada-US Trade Relations

The threat of Mr. Trump ending the NAFTA negotiations, including the possibility of him sending a notice of US withdrawal from the treaty itself, prompts a brief but interesting review of US-Canada trade relations over the last 150 years. In may come as a surprise to learn that the US has only terminated one trade… Read More »

POST NAFTA WORLD

This op-ed piece by Lawrence L. Herman was published on-line in the Toronto Globe and Mail on 11 January 2018 and was in the print version the following day. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/the-post-nafta-world-is-starting-to-take-shape/article37572664/ Below is a copy of that article. Are we entering the post-NAFTA world? It certainly looks that way. The markets finally woke up to this Wednesday,… Read More »

Trump, Trade and the Congress

Here is a piece of mine on the NAFTA situation and the interplay between the President and the US Congress when it comes to NAFTA re-negotiations, including the threat of US withdrawal. Trump Trade and the Congress

NAFTA Scenarios

Here is a comment in the Globe & Mail Report on Business, 19 September 2017, regarding possible outcomes of the NAFTA talks. https://tgam.ca/2xmHA4r

NAFTA Options – Includes Canada Walking Away

Here is an op-ed of mine in the Globe and Mail Report on Business 22 August 2017, discussing the options for Canada in response to the aggressive “America First” approach by the Trump Administration to the NAFTA 2.0 negotiations. Canada Without NAFTA-Globe 23 Aug 2017

NAFTA Again – Exaggerated Controversy over Chapter 19 Panels

Here is a comment of mine published by the C.D. Howe Institute on the controversy surrounding the NAFTA binational panel system and the US objective of scrapping the thing in its entirety. A lot of hot air abounds/ Let’s look more closely at some of the facts: CD Howe Communique 11 Aug 2017

NAFTA – Everyone’s Chattering

There’s no end to the advice – well-intended on not – that Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and her team are getting from NAFTA experts and non-experts, far and wide. Interest and engagement over NAFTA and other trade issues amongst Canadians these days thanks to Mr. Trump is probably unprecedented. But one has feel sympathy… Read More »

NAFTA Negotiations – Alternative Ways to Settle Disputes

Here is a short piece published by the C. D. Howe Institute, 24 May 2017, suggesting some options for Canada in NAFTA negotiations if the US demands removal of the existing binational panel system (in Chapter 19) for dumping and subsidy cases. While not advocating that Canada should give in, the article suggests how State-to-State… Read More »