Janyce McGregor
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Tariffs raise 'serious questions' about NAFTA ratification, Freeland says
Chrystia Freeland left a meeting with United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer Monday sounding like a minister in no hurry to ratify the revised North American trade deal, so long as steel and aluminum tariffs continue to apply to Canada–U.S. trade. → Read More
International trade in 2019: getting worse before it gets better
No question, 2018 was a stunning and often frustrating year for everyone engaged in international trade. However, 2019 seems to be looking at all that conflict and disruption and saying: "hold my eggnog." → Read More
Why Canada raced to get in on the CPTPP trade deal
The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, the 11-country Asia-Pacific trade agreement revived after being abandoned by the Americans, is now in effect. Agrifood exporters or consumers shopping for Japanese cars may benefit now - but Canada's larger goals are strategic. → Read More
International trade in 2018: making sense of a 'tarrifying' year
CBC News surveyed a dozen Canadian and American researchers, lecturers, lawyers and business advocates to sum up this complicated and often frustrating year in international trade. Here are a few highlights from what they shared with us. → Read More
First ministers talks begin with low hopes for progress amid squabbling
As Justin Trudeau's fourth first ministers meeting gets underway, it appears to hold little promise of a substantial or strategic national win on the key issues plaguing Canada's economy, with premiers focused instead on their individual interests. → Read More
Trudeau says government 'still in discussions' with U.S. on USMCA signing
Just over three hours before boarding a plane to Argentina for the G20 leaders summit, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada's "still in discussions with the Americans" about signing the revised North American trade agreement. → Read More
With three days to go until signing ceremony, USMCA text still not final
Three days away from the target date for all three countries to officially sign the revised North American trade agreement, Canada and the United States are still haggling over what the deal actually says. → Read More
APEC talks conclude without communiqué amid U.S.-China trade tensions
Leaders have left the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Papua New Guinea without coming to a consensus on a final communiqué to describe what was agreed at their talks. → Read More
ASEAN summit over, PM Trudeau arrives in Papua New Guinea for APEC summit
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent Friday morning at a hawker’s market. But as he jetted off from one Southeast Asian summit to his next, he seemed more like the guy with something to sell. → Read More
Attacks on the media are a threat to democracy, Trudeau says
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a press freedom event in Paris Sunday that one of the bulwarks protecting democratic governments from being undermined is also an institution under stress — a free-thinking, robust media. → Read More
'Thank you' to veterans: Vimy Ridge 1st stop on Trudeau's tour to mark 100 years since armistice
For Justin Trudeau and his Canadian delegation, there was an obvious place to start a weekend of commemorations marking the centenary of the armistice that ended the First World War: The still-pockmarked battlefield at Canada's National Memorial at Vimy Ridge. → Read More
No NAFTA 2.0 signing before steel tariffs end, Mexico says
A senior trade negotiator is holding firm to Mexico's position that American steel and aluminum tariffs must end before the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is signed. Juan Carlos Baker wouldn't rule out retaliation against Canada if surtaxes imposed Thursday on Mexican steel aren't reconsidered. → Read More
World Trade Organization members meet in Ottawa today to talk reform
Thirteen World Trade Organization members are gathered in Ottawa today for talks meant to be a first step toward fixing the increasingly-troubled global trading system. → Read More
Steel tariffs may lift when USMCA signed, new Mexican foreign minister says
The U.S. is expected to lift its steel and aluminum tariffs when a new North American trade deal is signed, Mexico's incoming foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard said Monday. Key ministers from Mexican president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government met their Canadian counterparts in Ottawa today. → Read More
Canada's new steel tariffs will 'kill businesses' in push to please U.S., lawyers warn
Canada's embrace of American-style protectionist measures to prop up domestic steelmakers is set to increase costs for consumers and secondary manufacturers - assuming they can even find steel to purchase amid current shortages. It's also offending key trading partners, most notably Mexico. → Read More
NAFTA talks forced Canada to pick a side in U.S.-China trade war
When the Trudeau government agreed to a revised North American free trade deal, the Americans said Canada also joined something else: Donald Trump's trade war on China. In the face of economically-destructive tariffs, staying neutral came at too high a price. → Read More
Auto industry relieved by NAFTA 2.0, but results may be mixed
Sighs of relief rippled across the North American car industry Monday. There would be no "Carmageddon" caused by auto tariffs torpedoing cross-border trade, now that NAFTA 2.0 found a safe landing zone. But once more protectionist rules set in, the auto sector might lose more than it gains. → Read More
Canada's NAFTA stance on culture is all about politics, not policy
The exemption Canada negotiated for cultural industries in its first free trade agreement with the United States still haunts the renegotiation of NAFTA three decades later. But is this perennial "red line" for Canadian trade negotiators smart policy, or just smart politics? → Read More
European cheese slow to arrive in Canada despite trade deal
As Canada marks the first anniversary of its trade deal with the EU this month, consumers may be wondering why they aren't seeing more European cheese on grocery shelves. The delays are a reminder of how complicated it can get when a trade deal pries open Canada's protected market. → Read More
Why NAFTA's unloved investor-state dispute chapter may be in trouble
The federal government finds itself in an awkward spot when it comes to foreign investment treaties. Canada lined up with an American model for investor-state dispute resolution, but the Trump administration's gone sour on it. It's making a NAFTA rewrite rather complicated. → Read More