This week’s report with trade correspondent L.C. covers US trade developments with Canada (lumber), Vietnam (tires), Brazil (steel), and Taiwan (FTA); the Republican convention; and Japan-Australia-India talks for “supply chain resilience” A WTO dispute settlement panel has found that the US erred in determining that Canadian softwood lumber was unfairly subsidized and that it therefore […]
Canada files with WTO a global attack on US unfair-trade laws
Weekly trade report for Jan. 8-14, 2018 by L.C. Canada has filed a new World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint against the US that is stunning in its scope. It targets in detail the way the US implements its unfair-trade laws, enumerating many practices that are at the core of US trade-remedy measures but that allegedly […]