Category Archives: United States

Canadian Trade Under Threat by Biden’s Tax Credit Plan

Going Green under the Biden Plan Threatens Canadian Interests – MLI 15 November 2021

2021 Trade Priorities: Make CUSMA Work & Fix the WTO

This is a comment of mine, printed in the Financial Post on 15 December 2020, with some recommendations for 2021 for those ministers in the Trudeau government in charge of Canadian trade policy, including the PM himself. 2021 trade priorities-Financial Post Op-Ed CDHI Reprint

Seven Trade Moves to Watch For Under Joe Biden

This is a Globe and Mail (Toronto) column, 12 November 2020, reviewing some of the key trade policy issues likely to percolate to the surface as between Canada and the US under Joe Biden’s presidency. Canada-US Trade Under President Biden

Buy American Challenges

This is a short piece issued by the C. D. Howe Institute, Toronto, regarding the Buy American policies of president-elect Biden and the potential challenges these kind of preference have for Canadian suppliers to the American procurement market. C D Howe Inst Memo – Joe Biden’s Buy American Agenda

COVID-19 Crisis & Trump’s Export Controls

COVID-19 Crisis-Export Controls Not the Answer

Investment Disputes under NAFTA-An Evaluation

This commentary, published by the C. D. Howe Institute, deals with investor claims under NAFTA Chapter 11 and assesses Canada’s win-loss record over the past 25 years. These arbitrations are coming to an end under the new NAFTA – or CUSMA as it’s called in Canada. I say that’s a welcome development. NAFTA Investment Disputes-Bringing… 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 »

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 – 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 »