The planned EU-Canada free trade deal cleared a hurdle to its implementation next year when the European Parliament rejected a motion ...to ask the top European Union court to rule on its legality.
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'Underestimated' Trump could change the rules on trade: Don Pittis
December 9, 2016
Except for the people who gave up years of their lives negotiating it, there will be few tears in Canada or the United States for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
But after what seems like the final collapse of a seven-year process to co-ordinate trade rules between Canada, the U.S., Japan and a group of nine other nations around the Pacific, what path will world trade take next?
U.S. expected to turn up heat on softwood lumber dispute with investigation request
December 9, 2016
A spokesman for International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland says the U.S. Lumber Coalition is expected to submit petitions to the Department of Commerce..., requesting an investigation in the ongoing softwood lumber dispute.
Canadian dollar may go as low as 70 cents US in 2017, experts say
December 9, 2016
Canadians travelling to the United States or buying goods south of the border in 2017 could expect to pay more as the Canadian dollar is expected to retreat, with some economists saying the loonie could swing as low as 70 cents US.
Donald Trump’s dangerous delusions on trade
December 4, 2016
Of all the issues on which Donald Trump opined so forcefully on the election trail, he was particularly strident and unusually specific about trade.