On Thursday 16th May 2019, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal published a notice of the commencement of an inquiry regarding exclusion requests concerning certain heavy steel plate and stainless steel wire products subject to the final safeguard measures that were imposed on Monday 13th May. This notice is further to an Order in Council made Thursday 9th… Continue reading Exclusion Inquiry Commenced Concerning Heavy Steel Plate and Stainless Steel…
Further to the report issued by the Canadian International Trade Tribunal on 3rd April 2019 in Safeguard Inquiry No. GC-2018-001 (Certain Steel Goods), final safeguard measures were imposed on imports of heavy steel plate products and stainless steel wire products as of Monday 13th May. The final safeguard measures were not announced until Friday 10th May in… Continue reading Final Safeguard Measures Imposed on Imports of Heavy Steel Plate…
At the end of the day on Friday 26th April, the Department of Finance published a news release regarding the “Final Safeguards to be Imposed to Protect Canadian Steel Workers”. Recalling the Canadian International Trade Tribunal’s finding that “final safeguards are warranted for imports of heavy plate and stainless steel wire”, the news release serves… Continue reading Department of Finance Announces Government’s “Intent to Enact Final Safeguards”
On 17 April 2019, U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo announced that the suspensions that have applied to the civil remedies provisions in Title III of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 since its inception will not be continued and civil remedies will be available to certain United States nationals effective on May 2nd. In general… Continue reading On May 2nd Canadian Companies Doing Business in Cuba Could…
The long running disputes between the United States and European Union concerning subsidies granted to Boeing and Airbus are moving into the trade retaliation stage. If the US and the EU impose countermeasures on one another in the form of tariffs applied strategically to certain traded goods or other measures applied to services, this could… Continue reading From “Soup to Nuts” to Services – Potential Market Opportunities…
On 3 April 2019 the Canadian International Trade Tribunal issued its awaited ruling in the steel safeguard inquiry. The Tribunal was directed to conduct a safeguard inquiry concerning the importation into Canada of seven categories of steel products: (1) heavy steel plate, (2) concrete reinforcing bar, (3) energy tubular products; (4) hot-rolled sheet, (5) pre-painted steel,… Continue reading Canadian International Trade Tribunal Finds Safeguard Measures Warranted for 2…
On Wednesday 3rd April, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal will release its report in the safeguard inquiry concerning Certain Steel Goods. The report will set out the Tribunal’s decisions and reasons on whether safeguard measures are warranted in respect of seven broad categories of steel products imported into Canada: heavy plate, concrete reinforcing bar, energy tubular… Continue reading What’s Next in the Canadian Steel Safeguards Action
Canada’s provisional steel safeguard measures have been in place since 25th October 2018, imposing tariff rate quotas (TRQs) on imports of steel products in seven broad categories: i.e., heavy steel plate, concrete reinforcing bar, energy tubular products (encompassing line pipe and oil country tubular goods), hot-rolled steel sheet, pre-painted steel products, stainless steel wire, and… Continue reading Changes Announced to the Administration of the Provisional Steel Safeguard…
On 30 December 2018, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) entered into force among the first six countries to ratify the agreement: Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore. On 14 January 2019, the CPTPP entered into force for Vietnam. The first meeting of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission, the institution that oversees the… Continue reading And They’re off… CPTPP Commission Concludes its First Meeting
On 30th November 2018, Mexico, Canada and the United States signed the updated free trade agreement that will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (the “NAFTA”, which is specifically referred to in the text of the new agreement as the “NAFTA 1994”). Unlike the NAFTA, the new agreement does not appear to have a uniform name… Continue reading Mexico, Canada and the United States sign the “T-MEC” (and…
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