Not so good for at least one Canadian company: A Toronto company that has been exporting pipe to the United States market for 60 years recently landed a contract to supply plastic piping for a new health-care centre at the Camp Pendleton Marine base in California. But the piping is

The Ottawa Citizen makes the case: Using trade-law arguments to force Europe to accept seal-hunt products from Canada, while tempting, could ultimately do more harm than good for trade in general. Opponents of free-trade agreements have long argued that such agreements have the potential to undermine national sovereignty. By invoking

From Reuters: Ashton, who took over from Peter Mandelson last October, said a "new spirit" of transatlantic cooperation had been fostered by the U.S. administration under President Barack Obama. So-called "carousel" duties from the United States in the beef dispute were one of then U.

BIICL's 9th Annual WTO Conference will be held in London on May 20-21.  It has the usual outstanding group of participants: Welcome Professor John H. Jackson, Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law Center The Rt Honourable Sir Francis G. Jacobs KCMG QC, King's College