Here’s our 2022 paper published prior to the CBAM roll-out, predicting it would be an administrative nightmare (of questionable benefit). New potential Trump reciprocal tariffs have a different focus, but many lessons will be the same. www.fcf-ctf.ca/common/Uploa...

While reciprocity is central to Cdn FTAs & trade with other developed countries, we have unilaterally eliminated tariffs on most imports from least developed countries. Policy rationale: it is good for those countries & Canadian consumers. canada.ca/en/departmen...

US withdrawal from OECD Global Tax Deal, and scrutiny of foreign taxes targeting or applying extraterritorial tax commitments on Americans. For Canada: This puts Canada’s Digital Services Tax in the crosshairs, plus the Online Streaming Act 3/. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

USMCA implementation and review, plus unfair trade practices and trade imbalances. Lots in there, good and bad. For Canada: dairy TRQs; digital taxes; shared auto supply chain; Chinese investment in CUSMA countries; Buy American; softwood lumber 2/.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Chapter link here: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10..... If your institution doesn’t have access, DM me for a copy. (4/4)

Trudeau govt approach was all carrots, no sticks (2016 onward). This imperiled the program and Canada’s longstanding consensus on immigration in the process. (3/4)

Ironically, it is Canada’s position that has changed since my 2021 chapter, after Trudeau govt failed to correctly balance the carrots and sticks of Harper-era reforms (2013-15)…(2/4).

I look forward to reading this Sarah. Congratulations.

Link to paywalled article. DM for a copy if unable to access. www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

But rich countries do not use FTAs to seek to bind themselves to greater improvements or higher obligations than exist domestically. 3/3