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Michael Geist
The BTLR and USMCA, Part One: Why the Broadcast Panel Recommendations Conflict With Canada’s Emerging Trade Obligations
Since the release of the Broadcast and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel report late last month, I’ve posted on several key issues including an overview of concerns, news regulation, Canadian Heritage…
Canada-U.S. Blog
Happy Holidays/Busy Week
By Su Ross
Originally published by the Journal of Commerce in December 2019 While there are those who think the only thing going on in Washington, D.C. these days is the impeachment hearings,…
Canada-U.S. Blog
Yikes to the Year End!
By Su Ross
Originally published in December 2019 Clearly, there is more going on these days in Washington, D.C. than just the impeachment hearings, and activities this week made that point clear. In…
SmarTrade
President Trump Touts USMCA and “Phase One” China Deal in Third State of the Union Address
In his State of the Union address to Congress last night, President Donald Trump spoke of the “great American comeback” and claimed that “[t]he years of economic decay are over. …
Michael Geist
Conservative MP Dan Albas on Copyright Term Extension in USMCA: Government Needs to Mitigate Damage to Copyright Law
The House of Commons has been debating Bill C-4, the implementation bill for the US-Canada-Mexico (USMCA) Trade Agreement. The copyright term extension has begun to attract attention. Green MP Paul…
International Trade Insights
January 2020 Trade Law Update
By Nithya Nagarajan, Cortney Morgan, Camron Greer
In Husch Blackwell’s January 2020 Trade Law Newsletter, you’ll learn about the following updates in international trade and supply chain law. President Trump Signs USMCA Expansion of Section 232 Steel and…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Beltway Buzz, January 31, 2020
It’s Fun to Stay at the USMCA. On January 29, 2020, President Donald Trump signed the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA). Now the trade agreement takes off to the Great White…
International Trade Insights
President Trump Signs U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
By Julia Banegas, Camron Greer
President Trump signed the implementing legislation for the USMCA yesterday, making the United States the second of the three countries, after Mexico last December, to sign the agreement. The USMCA…
Global Policy Watch
Companies Should Understand USMCA’s Labor Obligations as They Are Significant and Likely to Be Enforced
Because labor-related obligations in existing U.S. trade agreements are general and largely hortatory, few enforcement actions have been taken with regard to these obligations. The labor obligations in the Agreement…
Immigration Blog
DHS Unaffected by New USMCA Treaty, Continues Increased Scrutiny of TN, Other Visas
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), signed into law in 1993, eliminated trade barriers and increased investment opportunities between the three signatory countries, the United States, Mexico, and Canada.…