Op-Eds
Trans-Pacific trade deal is down to the wire. Speak now, Canadian business: Globe and Mail Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on May 12, 2015
By Lawrence L. Herman
Lawrence L. Herman, Herman & Associates, practices international trade and investment law and is a Senior Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto.
A lot of balls are in the air, but a final Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is getting closer. It may be closer than we think, with a crucial meeting of top officials from all 12 negotiating countries slated to begin this week in Guam.
Some final horse-trading is needed. For one thing, the Americans have not yet struck a market access deal with Japan, a key component that will become part of a final TPP deal.
But the trans-Pactific agreement is definitely…
Published in Financial Post on March 19, 2015
By: Lawrence Herman
Lawrence L. Herman, Herman & Associates, practices international trade and investment law and is a Senior Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto.
On the twisting Trans-Pacific Trade route, who are we dealing with?
With the demise of the WTO Doha Round, the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations is the biggest trade game in town and its success is to be championed, given the amount of trade in goods and services that will be freed up if a final deal can be cemented this year.
Canada is engaged with the United States in this exercise (maybe not as fully as Canada should be) along with ten other Pacific Rim…
Published in The Globe and Mail on February 10, 2015
By: Daniel Ciuriak and Daniel Schwanen
Dan Ciuriak is a Fellow in Residence with the C.D. Howe Institute and the former Deputy Chief Economist at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He is currently Director and Principal, Ciuriak Consulting Inc. Daniel Schwanen is Vice President Research at the C.D. howe Institute.
Hot on the heels of the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement’s entry into force on Jan. 1, Canada’s Trade Minister, Ed Fast, is leading a trade mission to South Korea this week. This is a good time to remind ourselves of the importance of this agreement, Canada’s first with an Asian economy. It is also a good time to…
Published in The Globe and Mail on January 28, 2015
By: Lawrence L. Herman
Lawrence L. Herman, principal at Herman and Associates, practises international trade law and is a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto.
It’s happening again.
In the early 1980s, Canadians witnessed the sorry spectacle of provinces roaming around Westminster, cap in hand, lobbying British politicians to save them from their own federal government in its move to patriate the Constitution.
It was a sad chapter in Canadian political history, provinces invoking Britain’s role as colonial master, asking Britain to save them from their own federal government because the provinces couldn’t settle internal…
Published in the Globe and Mail on January 13, 2015
By: Christopher Ragan
Christopher Ragan is an associate professor of economics at McGill University and a research fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute.
Germany is usually blamed for the two wars that devastated much of Europe during the first half of the 20th century. And those wars were an important motivation for the European Union, a grand project to bind together many countries, both economically and politically. Future wars in Europe may now be unthinkable, but Berlin is nonetheless wreaking havoc on its neighbours – this time through its belligerent stance on economic policies.
Six years after the beginning of the global financial crisis,…
