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New trade rules being implemented as part of the on-going wave of major bilateral/regional trade agreements are impacting the complex and evolving innovation ecosystem in non-neutral ways, favouring some innovation modes (such as patent-oriented research and development), but generating...
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will impact on substantive market regulations in a wide a range of areas bearing on market access, both by establishing substantive new horizontal and sectoral standards and by establishing requirements regarding...
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Investor-state dispute settlement provisions in modern trade agreements allow companies to bring suit against governments for policy changes that reduce the value of their investments, which include by definition expected profits. While these treaties also provide that the mere fact that a...
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Canadian business and political leaders have long looked to strengthen bilateral economic relations with the ASEAN Economic Community based on its openness to trade, its dynamism and its integration into Asian production chains. Given the shift from an Asia-Pacific to an Indo-Pacific framing for...
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Canada has historically been one of the major users of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures in international trade …
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The distinction of introducing the first anti-dumping measure falls to Canada. At a time when tariffs were not bound …, anti-dumping first made its appearance in an era that was a high season of globalization, with labor and capital able to … interest to note a major difference: anti-dumping actions did not proliferate then but are doing so now. This paper, developed …
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While antidumping laws were originally developed as the international trade analogue of domestic competition or … justification for modern antidumping practice remains founded on the bedrock of countering “unfair” trading practices and preserving … competitive markets. Consistent with this formal rationale, antidumping law has been replaced by competition policy mechanisms in …
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The election of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States raises a litany of questions about the future of US trade policy. Canada, along with Mexico, is particularly heavily exposed to trade with the United States and there is considerable speculation about how Canada should react if...
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The consensus economic policy framework that evolved in the post-Bretton Woods era and the model of globalization to which it gave rise are in crisis due to political blowback. The framework has guided the system into a solution space that features stagnant growth and persistent deflationary...
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