Canada’s continued insistence that Bulgarians and Romanians need visas to visit this country could block key parts of the Canada-Europe free-trade agreement from coming into force, a top European leader [has] warned...
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No matter how you slice it, we’re headed toward a lumber fight
June 6, 2016
By mid-October, the U.S. Lumber Coalition — a.k.a. The Coalition to those who have spent their lives in the trenches of softwood lumber battles — will be able to file new anti-dumping and countervailing duty complaints against Canadian softwood lumber exports.
The ‘better in than out’ attitude underestimates the TPP’s benefits
May 28, 2016
In the fractious politics of trade, a recent, supportive C.D. Howe Institute report on Canada’s stake in the Trans-Pacific Partnership made a welcome contribution.
World economy faces risks, but growth likely: Bank of Canada
May 28, 2016
While the global economy faces a number of risks, including the potential for a shock from China, the most likely scenario is that growth continues, with some headwinds starting to slowly fade, a senior Bank of Canada official [has] said...
Trade Minister meets with her North American counterparts to discuss economic cooperation
May 18, 2016
The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Trade, issued the following statement following [the] trilateral meeting with her U.S. and Mexican counterparts: