Think Canada-U.S. Trade Issues Are Settled? Think Again.

By Keith Edmund White
Editor-in-Chief

With all this blog's focus on the Canada-U.S. trade and economic relationship, I realized some readers may think:   Canada-U.S. trade issues are so 1992.

Well, just look at what barriers remain between the United States and Canada.

Here's a description of Canadian barriers to U.S. trade (go to pages 53-61):

And for the Canadian perspective, check out this 2008 report (pages 19-21):  (Question:  Anyone know if there's been an update?)

A summary of these findings will be highlighted latter.  

But one take-away is obvious:  NAFTA didn't end trade issues between Canada and the United States.