Category Archives: WTO

World Trade Organization-Comment on its Many Challenges

This is an opinion piece published in the Globe and Mail, 3 March 2021. It comments on two main institutional factors that will impact on the future of the WTO, noting these are among the many formidable challenges facing the new Director-General. Can the WTO be Saved

Bibliography – Publications, Articles, Papers (1978-2021)

This is a listing of Lawrence Herman’s published articles, etc. over the last 40 or so years. A selection of newspaper columns and editorial comments are included here. Bibliography-current to Feb 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

Restoring Order to World Trade

Restoring Order to Global Trade-FP 27 Oct 2020

No Peace in the Trade Valley

Peace in the Trade Valley-FP Comment 13 Aug 2020 This is a comment in the Financial Post, 13 August 2020, explaining how privately-driven trade disputes (like dumping and subsidy complaints) will continue even if Washington and Beijing conclude some kind of trade armistice. The WTO Agreement plus countless investment treaties worldwide allow private parties to… Read More »

Future of the World Trade Organization

Some thoughts of mine in a commentary published by the Financial Post on May 19, 2020, suggesting a new post-pandemic agenda for the WTO, giving it a new item to tackle and helping to get it out of its current political torpor, made more difficult by the Trump administration’s attacks on the Organization. https://bit.ly/2Zlhg9h

Trade & Refugees-Discussion Paper

Here is a short discussion paper I prepared for the World Refugee Council on how WTO trade rules could be harnessed to alleviate some of the burdens on refugee host countries. This paper doesnt deal with complex issues of integration – rather, it looks at how short or medium term trade and tariff measures can at… Read More »

NAFTA’s Future & Canada versus US at the WTO

This is a short interview on BNN January 11th discussing the future of NAFTA and Canada’s massive WTO case against the US and its trade remedy system. https://www.bnn.ca/economics/video/trade-lawyer-the-bell-is-tolling-for-nafta~1301346

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 »

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 »