Category: Trade
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Read more: The “Bridge” flap… a good example of how to make bad policyThe Windsor-Detroit border crossing, which for years has been restricted to the Ambassador Bridge, is the busiest Canada-U.S. crossing, reportedly carrying more than 25% of all merchandise trade between Canada and the United States by value and…
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Read more: Carney speaks to Trump after president erupts over Gordie Howe BridgeThe amount of time and energy that must be spent correcting the late night rantings of the U.S. President. Incredible… Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke to his U.S. counterpart early Tuesday morning about the Gordie…
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Read more: Trump threatens to block opening of new bridge between Windsor and Detroit
A new day…a new shit-show. The Moroun family has been an incredible irritant in the completion of this project. But this… this is the real-time implementation of Trump’s National Security Strategy… he will bully anybody over anything…
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Read more: Report on Canada’s 2025 CUSMA Consultations releasedI can’t find a date on this release…I just blundered into it on the Global Affairs website. I either missed it from earlier…or it is just out. Either way, this is so high level that it is…
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Read more: USTR Greer on CUSMA Review
Several stories on the remarks from USTR Greer to the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees … In them he gives a preliminary understanding of what the U.S. Administration took away from the recent USMCA…
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Read more: A Fertilizer Case StudyI don’t spend a lot of time thinking about fertilizer but this week fertilizer came into focus for me with three inter-related developments. Taken together they illustrate the many, and inconsistent, ways that President Trump’s “approach” to…
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Read more: U.S. congressional report finds Trump tariffs hurting American businesses along Canadian borderThere has been a lot of talk about the impact that the U.S. trade disruption on Canada is having. Great to find a U.S. source report that tells it like it is. By Madeline Mazak Dec 12, 2025…
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Read more: CUSMA Review 2026…First Steps
The United States Trade Representative office is holding three days of hearings this week “regarding the operation of the Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada (USMCA) in preparation for the…
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Read more: Trump Official Warns President May Leave His Own Signature Trade Deal
I saw this Newsweek story today. No coincidence as this was Day 2 of the USTR Hearings on USMCA review. Trump has said similar things as well. The key takeaway is they seem to be setting up…
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Read more: Go Small or Go Home? Trump, CUSMA, and the Evolution of MegadealsApropos my recent post on the flurry of activity on trade negotiations from the Carney government, Lawrence Herman notes that they are not all cut from the same cloth. He rightly notes that smaller, industry or sector…