Exporting & Importing
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LNG Canada CEO says Canadian energy projects can be competitive despite delays, higher costs
Andy Calitz says he believes Canada’s low-cost natural gas and relatively closer proximity to Asia makes it competitive with other countries vying to sell liquefied natural gas around the world
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Capital investment in Canada’s auto sector well below pre-recession levels: report
DesRosiers Automotive Consultants says investment has been almost cut in half, noting “Canada’s loss of investment market share to Mexico and the southern U.S. over this period has been well documented”
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Former PM Stephen Harper breaks silence on NAFTA, and it’s not pretty
The former Conservative leader, who’s an ardent free trader, said powerful anti-trade forces that extend beyond Trump’s presidency are at play in American society and aren’t going away any time soon
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Boeing launches PR campaign touting economic contribution to Canada
The U.S. plane maker is looking to remind Canadians of its supply chain connections north of the border as its battle with Bombardier and the Canadian government continues
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Trudeau to sit down with Trump at White House as trade tensions run high
The prime minister said he will look for common ground on NAFTA with the U.S. president, who has repeatedly signalled he’d rather rip up the deal than renegotiate it
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Trump jokingly tried to recruit Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner for NAFTA negotiations
Trump singled out the achievements of playoff MVP Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and American Phil Kessel, but couldn’t help himself from making a NAFTA negotiations joke
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The art of not getting a deal; it’s becoming clear that U.S. demands are intended to seal NAFTA’s demise
A trade expert involved in the first NAFTA negotiation said the U.S. behaviour in the current NAFTA talks is a vivid and unprecedented example of how not to negotiate. He called it a tactic designed to ensure failure
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U.S. NAFTA pullout could cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, U.S. Chamber warns
In an unusually blunt series of comments from the largest American business group, an official said the U.S. withdrawing from the trade deal would create a “political and economic debacle”
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Canada’s economic growth will lead G7, says IMF
The Washington-based International Monetary Fund is now estimating Canada’s gross domestic product for 2017 will be 3.0 per cent, half a percentage point higher than its July estimate
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‘This hypocrisy is appalling’ Bombardier slammed with additional 80% duty
Foreign Affairs minister Chrystia Freeland blasted the U.S. for adding 79.82 per cent to the 219.63 per cent in preliminary countervailing tariffs against Bombardier. She says “Boeing is manipulating the U.S. trade remedy system”