According to a media release of 25 October 2009 from the Australian Trade Minister, it has been agreed that the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement will come into force on 1 January 2010 following discussion between...
If you have been following CyndeeLaw on Twitter, you will have already seen the discussion that I have been having with Mexico Times. On Saturday, August 8, 2008, Mexico Times tweeted:
4500 #Mexico Trucking Cos will sue US...
On July 16, 2009, Canada's Privacy Commissioner issued a news release entitled " facebook needs to improve privacy practices, investigation finds". A copy of the news release may be found at the following link -...
I received the article below from Jane Moffat from McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. Credit also needs to be given to David R. Butcher, the author of the article.
The article is scary to Canadian companies because it clarified...
The Australian Government has announced that it is engaging in consultations and is reviewing the financial supply provisions of the GST with a view to reducing their complexity and introducing more principled rules, while...
A high ranking Obama Administration official recently identified the four pillars of Obama's trade policy as the multilateral system, enforcing what was negotiated, free trade agreements, and how well does the trading system work...
On 20 April 2009, the Australian Government's Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) (see www.efic.gov.au) released it second Global Readiness Index Report (Index) (see www.efic.gov.au/gri/report)
The Index...
The San Francisco Chronicle has writen:
It's not a trade war yet, but there could be one unless Washington backs away from a ban on Mexican trucks crossing the border.
This dispute has the potential to worsen relations between...
On November 13, 2008, the Government of Canada and the Government of China signed a memorandum of understanding on financial services , which resolves some or all of the issues at the heart of a WTO case. The Memorandum of...
The Honorable Sergio Marchi, Canada's former Ambassador to the WTO and currently a business advisor in Lang Michener LLP's International Trade Group and the Chairman of the Canadian Services Coalition has sent Trade Lawyers Blog...
The Honourable Sergio Marchi, a business advisor to Lang Michener LLP and former Canadian Ambassador to the WTO and former International Trade Minister for Canada, send Trade Lawyers Blog the following article from the Financial...
On February 19, 2008, a task force proposed “profound” changes to Quebec's health care system, including a greater role for the private sector. The head of the task force is former Liberal minister and insurance...
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In the December 8, 2007 issue of the Canada...
Canada is negitating a free trade agreement with the CARICOM countries (Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and...
On June 7, 2007, the Government of Canada announced that it had commenced negotiations of a free trade agreement with the Dominican Republic. In order to ensure that the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade...
Canada's Globe & Mail reported that on November 19, 2007, Japan began fingerprinting foreigners entering the country. The measures are communicated to be based on an anti-terrorism policy. Hisashi Toshioka,...
