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SmarTrade
Trump Threatens to Withdraw from NAFTA in Effort to Spur Congressional Action
By Thompson Hine International Trade
On December 1, 2018, President Donald Trump announced his intention to formally terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 2019. Addressing the press aboard Air Force One, Trump…
Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
U.S., Canada, and Mexico Sign New NAFTA
This morning, on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Argentina, the United States, Canada, and Mexico signed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The new trade deal is slated to replace…
Copyright and Brand IQ
USTR Delivers GI Protections for Cheeses in Time for the Holidays. Or Does It?
By L Fishman
A press release from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in early October heralded the key achievements of the recently concluded U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, intended to replace the vilified…
Biosimilars Law Bulletin
USMCA Assailed as Exacerbating High Drug Prices
On November 5, 2018, twenty-nine organizations representing various groups including insurance companies, patient and consumer advocacy groups, unions, and retirees, submitted a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to…
Ohio Clock
Four Things to Know: What the Election Results Mean for Trade Policy
Democrats’ new majority in the House will bring the Trump administration’s past trade actions, as well as those under consideration, into sharper focus. Trade is shaping up to be a…
International Trade Law
2018 Midterm Elections Update: Impact on U.S. Trade Policy
By Joshua Boswell, Jing Jing Zhang
The 116th Congress begins on January 3, 2019. Based on projections from yesterday’s midterms, Democrats will control the House of Representatives by a narrow margin, while Republicans will expand their…
Ackah Business Immigration Law
USMCA: What Didn't Happen
By Evelyn Ackah
24 October 2018 Canada, the United States and Mexico signed a new trade agreement on September 30, 2018 called USMCA: United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Evelyn Ackah, founder and managing lawyer of…
The Brand Protection Blog
Canadian Anti-counterfeiting under the USMCA – what you see? We (mostly) already got it
The USMCA – aka NAFTA 2.0 – has a Chapter devoted to intellectual property, which has been the subject much consideration and debate since release of the text on October…
The Trade Practitioner
NAFTA Then, USMCA Now
Our international trade policy team recently published an analysis on the modernized North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), known as the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Below is a snapshot of the…
Capital Thinking
NAFTA is Dead, Long Live NAFTA
On September 30, 2018, the US, Mexico and Canada announced the successful conclusion of talks to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) contains a…