Reading Time: 4 minutes Duties may look like attractive, simple mechanisms to protect domestic interests. But they’re a very expensive way to retain jobs
Tag: Protectionism
TPP2 death knell for supply management, and that’s a good thing
Reading Time: 3 minutes The new Trans-Pacific deal will boost agri-food industries. But it’s a nail in the coffin for Canada’s protectionist supply-management sectors
Days of supply management may finally be coming to an end
Reading Time: 3 minutes And if they are, Canadian consumers with have NAFTA 2.0 and Donald Trump to thank for the decrease in the price of dairy products
Supply management stands in defiance of fair trade
Reading Time: 3 minutes If Canada eliminated its supply management system and the U.S. opened up the softwood lumber industry, both countries would benefit politically and economically
Fixed exchange rates an easy fix to Canada-U.S. trade relations
Reading Time: 3 minutes At the heart of Canada-U.S. trade problems is the wildly fluctuating Canadian dollar
Finding new markets will ease impact of U.S. protectionism
Reading Time: 3 minutes As Canada integrates more and more into the global economy, it will matter to us less and less that the United States withdraws
Canada looks to Europe for a winning trade recipe
Reading Time: 3 minutes In an increasingly protectionist world, finding trade partners for agricultural products is difficult, although the benefit can be huge
The folly of protectionism
Reading Time: 3 minutes Free trade creates many more jobs than it ever kills