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

Chinese Electric Vehicles – An emerging threat? This is an article of mine published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (https://macdonaldlaurier.ca) about trade actions by Western governments to combat the influx of subsidized Chinese vehicles.

A trade war over Chinese electric vehicles looms large

PM Brian Mulroney-His Trade Legacy under Threat

Preserving Mulroney’s Trade Achievements

Op-Ed in Financial Post (Toronto)-Business & the WTO

WTO & Business Interests FP 21 Feb:24

China and the Global EV Challenge

This opinion piece the The Globe and Mail (Toronto, 30 January 2024) discusses the ongoing trade war between China and the West, as massively subsidized Chinese EVs, batteries and other automotive components enter the global marketplace. With trade restrictions against Chinese EVs in the US and a trade action just starting in the EU, this… Read More »

NATO, Defense and Canadian Well-Being

This is an op-ed (14 February 2024) that explains how Canada’s poor record in meeting NATO defense expenditure obligations – and other commitments to its allies – weakens the country’s geopolitical influence and its ability to resolve economic, commercial and trade matters, ultimately impacting on the well-being of Canadians generally. It’s a call for changes… Read More »

WTO – Challenges in the Multilateral Trading Order

Seismic Shifts in Global Trade-Inside Policy

Historic Shifts in Global Trade

Friend-Shoring & the Twilight of Multilateralism

More Protectionism is Poor Trade Policy

Supply Management – A Disaster for Canada

Recent Developments in Canada’s Trade Law Regime

In this short commentary, I describe some notable developments in Canada’s trade remedy system, heralding what seems to be a more agressive approach by the Federal government in dealing with imported goods, with China being in the focus. Trade Remedy Update-CD Howe Memo 11 May 2023

Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) – Some Comments

The proliferation of bilateral international investment agreements (IIAs) globally, with their binding Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions, means that investment arbitrations will be an ongoing feature of business relations in many parts of the world. Even if some countries are terminating their IIAs, investment arbitrations will continue, the challenge for governments being to respond to… Read More »