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...
Tomorrow, I am giving a lecture at the Univeristy of Windsor, Centre for Transnational Law and Practice about NAFTA. As I was waiting for my flight, because Air Canada bumped me off the flight I was scheduled to take (why I...
On October 20, 2008, the United States Court of International Trade (CIT)issued a landmark opinion in favour of the Canadian Wheat Board. - see following decision - www.cit.uscourts.gov/slip_op/Slip_op08/08-112.pdf
The...
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...
On September 26, 2008, P)rime Minister Stephen Harper made a campaign promise to restrict the export of raw bitumen (in other words, he promised to ban the export of heavy black oil from Canada's oil sands to countries with lax...
On September 24, 2008, business groups from every major sector of the U.S. economy communicated with House and Senate leaders urging them to reject any attempts to reinstate the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act. The...
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...
NDP Leader, Jack Layton, has said that if the New Democratic Party win the election, they will renegotiate the labour and environmental provisions of NAFTA. This should not surprise anyone who is familiar with the...
On June 20, 2008, I attended the the Economic Club of Canada luncheon featuring Senator John McCain, the presumptive Repulican nominee for the President of the United States. His message is a stark contrast to the messages...
On June 4, 2008, the U.S. legislators took a dangerous turn when reaching a fork in the road. When presented with a choice of honoring the trade agreements that trading partners have negotiated in good faith, the U.S...
Canadian politics are, at time, softer than U.S. politics. The report on the NAFTA-gate investigation is likely one of those softer and gentler cases.
In February 2008, a chain of events started with a comment at the...
At the New Orleans, Louisiana NAFTA Summit, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, President George Bush and President Calderon made statements in support of the continuation of NAFTA. All three leaders clearly indicated that they...
On April 22, 2008, the leaders of Canada, the United States an Mexico held a North American Leaders Summit in New Orleans, Louisianna, to discuss North American priorities. On April 22, 2008, the Prime...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Protection Plan was released in November 2007. Against the backdrop of the publicity surrounding tainted food from China (and there is, of course, tainted food coming from other...
On March 20, 2008, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) issued Customs Notice CN-08-014 "NAFTA Rules of Origin - Disassembly as a Mode of Production That may Confer Origin". In Customs Notice CN-08-014, Canada updates...
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...
