On March 31, 2020, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal (“FCA”) released its decision in Angang Steel Company Limited v. Attorney General (Canada) et al., 2020 FCA 67 in which it dismissed a judicial review of the Canada Border Services Agency’s (“CBSA”) final calculation of a dumping margin for Angang in the dumping investigation against corrosion-resistant
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Privacy Shield Takes More Hits
Just in the last week, both the European Parliament and the European Data Protection Supervisor (“EDPS”) published findings holding the currently proposed EU-US Privacy Shield to be seriously deficient, and calling for further negotiations to deal with those “holes”.
On May 26, 2016, the European Parliament passed a resolution, see EU Parliament Resolution, basically…
Canada-EU CETA Investment Arbitration Tribunal Is An Opportunity For Canadians
On February 29, 2016, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Trade, and Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade, announced that the legal review of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) English text has been completed. More interesting, thy announced changes to the Investment Chapter and the establishment of a permanent investment…
Canada’s Procurement Review Procedure Accessible to Small-to-Medium Sized Businesses
Canada has a federal government procurement bid challenge mechanism that has been made somewhat user-friendly to small-to-medium sized businesses. Chapter 10 of the North American Free Trade Agreement and equivalent chapters in other free trade agreements and the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement require that Canada establish a bid challenge mechanism. Canada has done so.…