Category Archives: Trade Policy
NAFTA Options – Includes Canada Walking Away
Canada’s NAFTA Strategies – Play Hardball
An op-ed piece of mine in the Globe and Mail Report on Business, outlined the implications of the USTR’s statement of the Trump administration’s NAFTA renegotiations and Canada’s possible response. CANADA WILL HAVE TO PLAY HARDBALL on US NAFTA DEMANDS Globe and Mail, 17 July 2017 LAWRENCE L. HERMAN © 2017 So we now know… Read More »
NAFTA and Beyond – Canadian Trade Strategies
As Canada enters the difficult and contentious NAFTA negotiations with the US, here are some thoughts in a Globe and Mail op-ed piece on some elements for Canada’s overall trade strategies, not forgetting either the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (which has been signed by all countries, even the US) and the World Trade Organization Agreement, where… Read More »
Canada and the American Challenge
Here is a memo on the various Canada-US trade issues as we move through 2017. The critical matter is the impending NAFTA re-negotiations. This memo provides a summary review of the challenges Canada faces. https://hermancorp.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Canada-and-the-American-Challenge-April-2017.pdf
Tweaking NAFTA – Bilateral Talks May Be Best
Beyond NAFTA – A New Bilateral Trade Deal With the US?
I wrote an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail in January 2017, saying that a possible approach for Canada is to look beyond NAFTA as a three-way agreement and to consider a NEW BILATERAL TRADE DEAL with the US. Given the problems in resolving Trump’s concerns over Mexico within the NAFTA as it is… Read More »
Order and Disorder in International Trade
“You’re going to pay a very large border tax”. That’s what President-elect Trump said at his January 11 news conference (if it can be called that) about US companies that manufacture abroad, repeating statements he repeatedly made on the campaign trail. It seems fair to predict this blustering will become actual US policy post January… Read More »
Trump and Trade – Whither NAFTA
As we try to come to grips with all the implications of the Trump ascendency, there are some important points for Canada to contemplate when it comes to bilateral trade matters. First, Trump will move quickly to demand re-negotiation of the NAFTA and while his acrimony is focused on Mexico, as a trilateral agreement Canada… Read More »
Export Controls & Economic Sanctions – 2016
Together with the 2016 Trade Remedies Primer, we’ve prepared a basic outline of Canada’s Export Controls and Economic Sanctions, to explain in clear and, hopefully, in non-legalistic terms how the system works. Like the trade remedies companion piece, it’s boiled down to the main ingredients. To get the primer, just click on the link below.… Read More »