January 28, 2011By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On January 25, 2011, Corn Products International issued a press release that it had received $58.4 million from the Government of Mexico as payment of an arbitral award issued in respect of a Chapter 11 of NAFTA claim. ...
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March 11, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Recently, I have been informed of two NAFTA verifications being conducted by the Canadian Government in order to verify the correctness of NAFTA certificates of origin provided by U.S. companies and one NAFTA verification being...
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January 12, 2010By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Food Safety News reports that the American Meat Institute (AMI) is supporting Canada and Mexico in the dispute concerning the United States 2008 Farm Bill country of origin labelling (COOL) rules. The report indicates that the...
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May 15, 2009By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On May 15, 2009, Canada's National Post newspaper ran an article entitled "U.S. Climate bill would be 'disaster'". For a copy of the well-written article, please go to the following link -...
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April 01, 2009By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On March 31, 2009, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) transmitted to Congress the 2009 National Trade Estimate Report. The USTR plans to “aggressively defend our rights and benefits under the rules-based trading...
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March 24, 2009By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
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...
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February 10, 2009By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) announced that they plan to introduce an amendment to the Senate stimulus package that would help American automakers sell their cars, while also taking older, less...
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January 30, 2009By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Today I read a Washington Post article entitled "'Buy American' Rider Sparks Trade Debate". Go to the following link for the entire article -...
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January 29, 2009By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has written a letter warning of the "Buy America" provisions in Stimulus legislation. Perrin Beatty, writes:
Dear Canadian Chamber of Commerce member:
As you are probably aware, an...
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January 18, 2009By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On January 14, 2009, the British Columbia Government announced that the Province will update Coastal stumpage rates to reflect market realities; introduce new measures to expand the use of B.C. wood in construction; support...
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November 30, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
There is a lot of talk among trade law specialists about whether payments to the auto industry would result in a WTO illegal subsidy. IF Canada, China, the EU, Japan, Korea and the United States all bail out their...
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November 16, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
The rumours have started and so has the fear - rumour has it that President-elect Obama will tie any U.S. auto aid to a repatriation of jobs from Canada and Mexico to the United States. In other words, the United States...
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November 13, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
Some in Canada are not convinced that U.S. President-Elect Obama will act in the best interests of the North American economy. I, for one, think that the talks of renegotiating NAFTA will lead to uncertainty, which will in...
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November 03, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On November 2, 2008, the Canadian Press reported that Canadian beef and pork producers want Ottawa to commence trade actions against the United States over a new law that is already starting to shut their livestock out of...
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September 24, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
On September 24, 2008, the NDP made a surprising announcement promising that, if Jack Layton were elected Prime Minister, he would serve the United States notice that Canada will withdraw from the Softwood Lumber Agreement. Mr....
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September 22, 2008By: Cyndee Todgham Cherniak
In August, 2008, a bid by a Canadian softwood lumber company, Tembec, to vacate a NAFTA Chapter 11 cost award was dismissed by a United States District Court. This was the second request by Tembec to the United States District...
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