LAWRENCE L HERMAN - HERMAN & ASSOCIATES | Counsel on international trade, investment and public policy

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

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 »

NAFTA SCENARIOS UNDER MR. TRUMP

Here are some comments on the various possibilities for Canada-US trade relations as we move into 2018, overlain with the threat of Mr. Trump terminating US adherence to the NAFTA. Regarding the resurrection of the 1988 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA), it’s true it remains suspended but not terminated as a bilateral treaty. It could… 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

Dealing with Dictators

Canada doesn’t need a US-style Magnitsky Act to deal with putative dictators like Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe or others. We could easily deal with Maduro or any situation involving the trampling of basic human rights and democratic principles with a few tweaks to the Special Economic Measures… Read More »

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 »