This study quantifies the trade and economic impacts of the tariff measures taken to date in the main salvoes of the trade wars unleashed by unilateral US tariff measures imposed on steel and aluminum pursuant to the Department of Commerce Section 232 National Security Investigation, on imports...

Since the stalling of the Doha Round – which was designed to be development friendly – the main trade negotiation action has shifted to mega-regional initiatives. These agreements – particularly the Trans-Pacific Partnership, being the largest and most ambitious – will impact market...

This paper analyzes the impact on Canada’s economy of Taiwan’s accession to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement. While the TPP is to be concluded by the twelve current negotiating parties, it will allow accession by other regional economies, consistent with APEC’s endorsement of...

The development of new general purpose technologies centred on the nexus of Big Data, machine learning and artificial intelligence is transforming and disrupting established economic structures and markets, creating prospects for massive economic rents that incentivize strategic trade and...

We assess the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as negotiated, based on the actual text and liberalization schedules, supplemented by the technical summaries provided by various governments interpreting the outcome of the negotiations. In addition to the impact of tariff reductions...

Canada is at an historic juncture with regard to trade policy, deciding on ratification of the Canada-EU and Trans-Pacific Partnership agreements, having seen the multilateral option effectively removed at the WTO Ministerial at Nairobi in 2015, and facing constraints in making additional...

The infrastructure for services trade analysis has improved considerably with the development of databases on services trade for modelling purposes by the World Bank in its Trade in Services Database; on Mode 3 commercial presence trade in the form of foreign affiliate sales (FAS) data sets; on...

The possibility of a Canada-China Free Trade Agreement has been under discussion for some time. China has reportedly offered to negotiate an FTA with Canada, although this has not been officially confirmed by the Canadian Government. A tentative step towards a negotiation was taken in the 2012...

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...

The importance of services to Canada's economy is often lost in the discussion of how Canada can take advantage of trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In this Commentary, we look to close this gap with respect to the vital financial services sector. In order to determine the...