Canadians shouldn’t be naive. Our country rarely matters much at all to the United States when it comes to their political decision-making process. If we did, the Keystone XL pipeline would have been built, Country of Origin Labelling for livestock never would have happened and Americans would be paying for their own customs plaza in Detroit.
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[US] New Electronic Manifest for In-Transit Truck Cargo to be Tested
May 14, 2016
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is planning to conduct a pilot test of a new electronic manifest in the Automated Commercial Environment Truck Manifest System for truck shipments of commercial goods transiting from point to point in Canada through the United States.
Business Barometer: Small business confidence hits 10-month high
May 14, 2016
Canadian small business sentiment turned definitively upward in April. CFIB's Business Barometer® Index climbed nearly seven points in the month, rising to 59.2—its highest reading since June of last year.
Poloz urges support for TPP and Canada-Europe trade deals
May 14, 2016
The governor of the Bank of Canada is wading into the hyper-politicized debate over a pair of controversial trade deals.
“[Policymakers] should be working to help initiatives such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union become a reality,” Stephen Poloz said...
Regulatory Barriers: Threat to Trade
April 30, 2016
In a new report published [on Apirl 12, 2016, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce] identified regulatory barriers as the biggest threat to international trade.