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Trade Pact to ‘Significantly Enhance’ U.S.-Canada Trade

December 6, 2015

The Trans-Pacific Partnership offers an opportunity to “significantly enhance” cross-border trade between the U.S. and Canada, Washington’s top diplomat in Ottawa said.

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman [has] told a Toronto business audience the TPP agreement would allow U.S. and Canadian manufacturers to fortify their regional supply chains...

U.S., China Intensify Trade Competition on APEC Stage

December 6, 2015

President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping [have] laid out competing visions for trade in Asia, showing how the U.S. and China are vying for commercial as well as military influence in one of the most important corners of the global economy...

Liberals reviewing TPP aid for auto, dairy sectors

December 2, 2015

The Liberal government says it’s reviewing more than $4.3 billion in aid offered by the Conservatives to Canada’s auto sector and dairy industry to compensate for the potential fall-out of a sweeping Pacific trade deal.

International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland [has] said the financial relief — like the trade deal itself — is under review by the new government...

Tribunal Publishes Report on the Impact of Canadian Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Measures

November 28, 2015

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal) published a report titled “The Impact of Canadian Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Measures on Domestic Shipments, Investments, Employment and Imports: 1989-2014.” The report evaluates the impact of Canadian anti-dumping and countervailing measures by estimating what Canadian shipments, investments, employment and imports would have been i

China passes Canada to become largest U.S. trading partner

November 28, 2015

China has displaced Canada as the United States’s largest trading partner, a landmark shift that eliminates one of the defining characteristics of the Canadian economy.

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