All governments, including the Government of Canada, are considering how to make trade remedies laws a more effective tool for protecting domestic manufacturers.

On March 28, 2018, the Wynne Government of Ontario promulgated a regulation, the "Suppliers from New York" Regulation, O.Reg 117/18, to prevent the Ontario Government from buying steel from the State of New York.

The Canada Day long week-end will be here soon. Canadians travel outside Canada to visit friends and family and to shop.

Some truck configurations must be driven at night in British Columbia — and only during the day in neighbouring Alberta. Insomnia rejoice.

The Canada Border Services Agency ("CBSA") is granted the power to examine goods imported by travelers and returning residents.

On February 5, 2016, Foreign Affairs Minister Dion announced that "Canada amends sanctions against Iran" and regulatory changes were implemented/promulgated.

Canadian exporters will not longer be permitted to file Form B13A to report exports of goods.

However, the guidance is written for the knowledgeable in customs laws and not SMEs who are trying very hard to figure out what they are supposed to do.

The commercial production of industrial hemp was legalized in Canada in 1997. Industrial hemp is different from cannibis, which the Liberal government announced would be legalized in Canada on July 1, 2018.

The trade landscape is changing for many Canadian companies. Canada is involved in the renegotiation of NAFTA. The Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement comes into effect on August 1, 2017.

Canada is nearing a trade law crisis point that, quite frankly, is avoidable and easily solved. There are too few permanent members of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal ("CITT") for the workload.

On May 8, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States ("U.S.") will withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ("JCPOA")...

The reliability and safety of Canada's food supply chain has become increasingly important during these unprecedented and challenging times.

Let's face an incontrovertible fact – in the last 10 years, there are have been very few NAFTA Chapter 19 Bi-national Panels convened in respect of Canada-US & US-Canada trade remedies.

The longest anti-dumping order against whole potatoes from the United States has been in place for over 30 years.

The Trump Administration has signaled that one of first areas of interest for North American Free Trade Agreement ("NAFTA") renegotiation is the rules of origin.

Let's face it – The United States does not have a value-added tax and does not have a federal sales tax.

Canadian anti-corruption law is now clear, facilitation or "grease" payments to foreign public officials are illegal.

Will President Trump terminate NAFTA? Unfortunately, we don't know. Some days, press reports suggest a growing possibility that he will take steps to terminate the agreement. Other days, President Trump's pronouncements hint that he may be prepared to further negotiations.

Pride month is the right time to memorialize trans-gender and non-binary gender rights into Canada's human rights laws.