President Trump slapped steep tariffs on steel imports, echoing protectionist measures taken by Bush in 2002.
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Ottawa seems utterly unprepared for a trade war with the United States. The recent federal budget upholding equity values is noble, but won’t mean a thing if the government runs out of cash.
President Trump says ‘trade wars are good,’ but history tells a very different story.
China supplies just 2% of America’s steel, while Canada and Europe have sizeable shares and Australian steel producers depend on access to US markets.
The president’s tariffs on steel and China mirror the misguided trade policies that helped precipitate the Great Depression.
Options to avoid a hard border are on the table, but they remain unpalatable to Theresa May’s government.
Donald Trump has described NAFTA as the worst trade deal ever signed by the United States. As NAFTA talks continue, here’s what Canada and Mexico can do if the unthinkable happens.
Raising the cost of solar panels coming to the US could rekindle interest in a simple but potentially significant technology: solar reflectors.
On March 1, Donald Trump imposed a series of steel and aluminum tariffs. To understand their potential impact, it’s instructive to look at what happened after George W. Bush enacted similar measures in 2002.
Slapping duties on imported panels is unwise.
Instead of treating the Trump administration as a campaign adversary, Canada needs to start working with the United States to renegotiate a NAFTA that serves both countries, not regimes like China.
The Trump administration can boost domestic solar panel manufacturing without slapping duties on all imports.
Britain has fed itself before, can it do so again? It’s not easy to tell.
A trade dispute between Australia and Indonesia shines a spotlight on Australia’s controversial ‘anti-dumping’ practices at the World Trade Organisation.
Some fear that recent actions against China taken by the Trump administration mean we’re on the verge of a trade war. What would be the cost?
Lobster used to be a poor man’s meal. Now it’s the darling of foodies, and Canada’s lobster producers are poised to cash in on sales to the European Union thanks to CETA.
The president has promised to put a stop to foreign companies ‘dumping’ steel on US markets. Former President Bush tried the same thing, and here’s what happened.
May’s government is evoking arguments made by the early 20th-century tariff reform campaign of Joseph Chamberlain.
South Africa’s power utility Eskom wants regulatory reporting requirements waived. The country’s regulator faces possible court action if it agrees.
There’s ample space to renegotiate some terms from the original agreement that would improve social welfare across the region.
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