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Canada’s lackluster performance under CETA should be a lesson
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Beyond NAFTA 2.0
A Trade Agenda for People and Planet Download 7.77 MB84 pages With ratification of NAFTA 2.0 still up in the air, a new international report…
USMCA and Drug Costs – Time to Stand Up to Big Pharma
The USMCA, or CUSMA as it’s known here in Canada, is slowly working its way through the U.S. “fast-track” ratification process. Once the U.S. International…
Future of USMCA could turn on labour rights
When Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau and Enrique Peña Nieto sign the USMCA, as they (or their designates) are expected to do this weekend at the G20 summit…
Saving NAFTA Chapter 19
Was it worth it? Download 812.73 KB31 pages This report evaluates outcomes in the 54 complaints by Canadian exporters against U.S. trade authorities under NAFTA’s…
USMCA strikes a welcome blow against investor-state dispute settlement
At CCPA we have been poring over the nearly 2,000-page USMCA text. In the weeks and months to come we will be providing analysis of key…
NAFTA end game: the predictable and perilous tradeoffs facing Canada
Strong-arm tactics have always been an ugly feature of Canada-U.S. trade negotiations. But in the current NAFTA renegotiation the Trump administration has taken bullying and…
Window for NAFTA deal this year is closing fast
Congressional notification May 17, 2018 Final draft text released June 16, 2018 Signing of NAFTA 2.0 August 15, 2018 Notify changes to U.S. law October…
Canada is wrong to think we need a free trade deal with Mercosur
Prime Minister Trudeau and Brazilian President Michel Temer in July 2017. I was invited to appear before a parliamentary trade committee last week on behalf…
The US wants a NAFTA deal this month; Canada should say no
Lighthizer, Guajardo and Freeland feeling the NAFTA love in April.For the past four weeks, NAFTA negotiators in Washington, D.C., have been working around the clock…
A detailed look at the new, decidedly not-so-progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership
Protesters in New Zealand cement their feet in concrete to protest CPTPP. (Source: NewsHub)
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