Bloomberg News has reported that New Zealand has publicly announced that it plans to sign a free trade agreement with China on April 7th. The New Zealand - China FTA will be China's first free trade agreement with a...
In the 2008 Ontario Budget delivered by Minister of Finance, Dwight Duncan on March 25, 2008, Ontario proposed a new 10-year income tax exemption for new corporations that commercialize intellectual property in Ontario developed...
It is rare to have the opportunity to be a fly on the wall listening to the delaings between the United States and a trade partner.
Here is a fascinating post from Moderate Observer (taken from the Washington Post) - see...
A while back, Cyndee Cherniak posted an article about monetary seizures in Canada. The U.S. view is not all that different. The U.S. rule is that any money, monetary instrument (checks, money orders, etc), or other negotiable...
The old adage that time means money has many applications. One that has perhaps been often overlooked is how to quantify that in the context of goods movement.
In 2001, David Hummels at Purdue University sought to explain how...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the creation of a new Import Surveillance Division which is tasked with inspecting, detecting and stopping hazardous products from entering into the United States.
The...
An unusually large number of comments were filed by the public in response to Customs' advance data elements (10 + 2) proposal. The comment period closed March 18th. The great majority all make the same basic points.
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Effective September 30, 2008, all fruits and vegetables (and other named commodities) sold in the U.S. will have to be marked with their country of origin.
In 2002, the Farm Act amended the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to...
Despite the threat of imminent legal action by the American Trucking Association and other trucking interests, the Los Angeles Harbor Commission has approved the Teamster proposal requiring all drivers who service the Port to be...
The Dept. of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security has started an on-line training service. It can be found at: www.bis.doc.gov/seminarsandtraining/seminar-training.htm.
This effort is quite new so there are not yet...
Following on the heels of actions by the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners on March 21, 2008 approved in concept a tax on ocean containers. In June, Port staff is expected to make...
There is a lot of NAFTA-bashing by the left-leaning politicians on both sides of the Canada-United States border. As a law professor teaching a course on NAFTA and bilateral trading arrangements at case Western Reserve...
On March 14, 2008, Bill C-9 "An Act to Implement the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID Convention)" reached its final point in Canada's legislative process and...
I received the following article written by Sagar Satapathy and thought that it should be shared -
The Elite list of Top Ten BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) Companies in India
BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) has become...
On March 1, 2008, Canada announced that it would no longer require visitors from Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Lithuania to obtain a temporary resident visa to enter Canada. The visa-free entry is effective...
On March 10, 2008, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) found that the dumping and subsidizing of seamless carbon or alloy steel oil and gas well casing originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China...
