In the week of August 16, 2017, Canada’s NAFTA modernization team met in Washington D.C. with the United States Trade Representative’s NAFTA renegotiation team and Mexico’s NAFTA modernization team. At the end of the meeting, they issued a Trilateral Statement on the Conclusion of NAFTA Round One and indicated that Round Two will be held
On March 4, 2017, Global Affairs Canada announced consultations concerning a possible free trade agreement between Canada and China. Consultations means that Global Affairs Canada is consulting with Canadian interested stakeholders (the free trade agreement negotiations have not started yet – Canada is in a preliminary exploratory stage). Global Affairs Canada has posted information
As a trade lawyer, I remain optimistic that the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (“CETA”) will be signed. I am not ready to issue a “call of death”; but I am closer to that call than I was last week. The problem is that Canada is finished negotiations of the CETA and will
As a trade lawyer, I remain optimistic that the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (“CETA”) will be signed. I am not ready to issue a “call of death”. However, the CETA deal is in critical condition. Canada has walked away from the table because of the actions of Wallonia. The good news is
Watchers of international trade cases are looking at this historic South China Seas decision and watching for what will happen next. News agencies are speculating about what China will do next and what the United States will do next (US ships are in the vicinity at issue in the case). However, most people are wondering
Corporate compliance programs come in all shapes and sizes and apply whether your company is privately owned or publicly traded. These internal controls take the form of accounting and audit procedures, import-export/regulatory policies, employment guidelines, ethics/anti-corruption initiatives and so on. The intent of any compliance program is to ensure that employees know what is expected
On October 5, 2015, the trade ministers of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). TPP is a historic trade agreement. TPP is a comprehensive trade agreement.
For Canada, TPP represents a trade agreement with new parties (Australia, Brunei,
Canada signed the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID) on December 15, 2006 and investors and trade lawyers have been patiently waiting ever since for the Government of Canada to ratify the ICSID . We have been waiting and waiting.
In 2008, the Government of Canada