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Canada-US trade
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NAFTA panel says U.S. can’t show harm from Canadian softwood industry
Ottawa, ON — A joint NAFTA panel has given the United States three months to rethink its tariffs on imported Canadian softwood lumber but the saga for Canada’s troubled softwood companies is far from over. The five panel members —…
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Ambrose disagrees with Scheer’s assertion that Trudeau caved to Trump on NAFTA
Ottawa, ON — The Conservatives’ former leader doesn’t agree with the current leader’s assertion that Canada got taken to the cleaners by Donald Trump on the renegotiated NAFTA. Rona Ambrose, who was interim Conservative leader after the party’s 2015 election…
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Ottawa takes promised steps to prevent transshipments of aluminum, steel
Ottawa is taking promised steps to prevent aluminum and steel from entering Canada as a way to circumvent trade measures that led to the U.S. lifting tariffs earlier this year. Starting Sept. 1, certain aluminum products will be added to…
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Pence steps up pressure for trade deal with Mexico, Canada
Santa Fe, NM — Vice-President Mike Pence stepped up pressure on Congress to support the Trump administration’s new trade deal with Mexico and Canada, taking his pitch Wednesday to a congressional swing district in New Mexico. Speaking to a crowd…
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Trump administration, Democrats make progress on new NAFTA
Washington, DC — Congressional Democrats appear to be moving from “no way” to “maybe” on President Donald Trump’s rewrite of a trade pact with Canada and Mexico. House Democrats have met four times with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, most…
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C.D. Howe report finds no winners in Canada U.S. Mexico free trade agreement
The C.D. Howe Institute says negatives will outweigh the positives for all three parties to the new Canada-United States-Mexico free trade agreement but it will hit Mexico hardest and the U.S. the lightest. In a new analysis to be released…
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New NAFTA rules of origin need more clarity: C.D. Howe Institute
Toronto, ON — The new Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) sets out rules of origin for auto products that need greater clarity to provide certainty for the businesses who must apply them, states a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.…
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Trudeau Trump Washington meeting helps end Canada’s global loneliness
Washington, DC — Canada suddenly became a little less lonely in the world after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s meeting in Washington with President Donald Trump this week. Trudeau and Trump found a new simpatico over their shared desire to see…
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Lighthizer agrees to do whatever it takes to get new NAFTA passed
Ottawa, ON — Two days before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s arrival at the Oval Office, U.S. trade czar Robert Lighthizer has pledged to work with Democrats to do whatever it takes to ratify the new North American free trade deal.…
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Business leaders urge Trudeau to meet Pelosi, as well as Trump to push new NAFTA
OTTAWA — For now, he’s going to Washington to meet President Donald Trump, but Canadian business leaders say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be talking to Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi to push the continent’s new trade pact towards ratification.…
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MPs face summer recall for new NAFTA approval if no U.S. progress next week
Ottawa, ON — The Liberal government is prepared to recall Parliament this summer to ratify the new North American trade agreement, The Canadian Press has learned. As much as the government wants to move “in tandem” with the United States…
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Here’s the historic Canadian city Trump needs to visit
Canada-U.S. relations sit at a low point, eroding in recent years over everything from steel tariffs to Cuba and the Arctic. The current relationship between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump is more similar to the…