The Honourable Sergio Marchi, a business advisor to Lang Michener LLP and former Canadian Ambassador to the WTO and former International Trade Minister for Canada, send Trade Lawyers Blog the following article from the Financial...
Andrew Willis of the Globe & Mail has reported on his blog about an inside trading case involving an assistant at the blue-chip Canadian law firm Bennett Jones, Go to the following link for the story -...
Forbes.com reproduces a Reuters prepared time line of the Doha Round of WTO negotiations.
Following are some of the key dates in the latest global free trade push:
NOVEMBER 2001 - WTO members meeting in Qatar agree to launch...
Alecks Pabico has posted an interesting report on The Daily PCIJ Blog hregarding a judgment of the Philippines Supreme Court (go to www.pcij.org/blog/) in which the majority ruled that the Philippines Government...
On July 22, 2008, the WTO talks in Geneva could have died if the non-confidence vote in India had not been defeated. Lucky for the WTO talks, this brush with a fatal delay to the process brushed by with a narrow...
Bloomberg.com reports that U.K Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. Secretary of States, Condoleza Rica are increasing the volume on talks of new economic and trade sanctions against Iran in response to the nuclear enrichment...
As part of the negotiation of the Canada – Mongolia Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement (FIPA), the Government of Canada announced today (July 18) that it is conducting a Strategic Environmental Assessment...
CARBON STEEL PIPE NIPPLES AND ADAPTOR FITTINGS FROM CHINA
On July 15, 2008, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal renewed its anti-dumping order against carbon steel pipe nipples and adaptor fittings, in nominal diameters up...
In the July 11, 2008 issue of the Lawyer's Weekly newspaper, Cyndee Todgham Cherniak's article on bilateral investment treaty article was published. Please click on the Bilateral Investment Treaty Article link to download...
StarTribune.com has posted a great article by Hank Shea that summarizes a presentation he gave in June 2008 about export controls. The article may be viewed at www.startribune.com/business/24536914.html.
On June 17, 2008, the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, today announced that Canada and Japan will be placing border officers at key strategic locations in each other's country by the end of 2008. This...
Wondering what is going on in China? Take a look at english.gov.cn, the official government website, which posts most of its articles in English.
The Clagary Sun reported on July 4, 2008 that "Montana Sen. Jon Tester says Americans don't want border security issues to hamper trade with Canada ...people told them they wanted a safe international border, but not at the...
I was in Seoul, South Korea last week with the American Bar Association ILEX trip and we learned first hand about the anti-U.S beef sentiment in Korea. This is a divisive issue in Korea and may stop the Korea - U.S. Free...
On June 28, 2008, the CBSA signed an arrangement with U.S. Customs and Border Protection regarding the mutual recognition of Canada's Partners in Protection program and the U.S. C-TPAT program. Partners in Protection (PIP)...
