Federal Export Development Infrastructure in Canada

Canada is one of the leading economically developed countries and is among the most involved in international trade. Performance of the Canadian economy largely depends on the realization of Canadian businesses’ export potential. The article examines Canada’s federal export development infrastructure. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the activities of the federal state corporations Export Development Canada and Canadian Commercial Corporation, as well as of the Trade Commissioner Service. The paper also studies recent trends and structure of Canadian exports.

EU trade commissioner post is not safe yet

Headline EU/IRELAND: Trade commissioner post is not safe yet

Investor-to-state dispute settlement mechanisms: The Commission’s “new EU approach”, the European Parliament’s “new system”, five new questions and one old problem

On 5 May 2015, Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström announced on her blog the publication of a concept paper on “Investment in TTIP and beyond – the path for reform”. The concept paper, which was discussed one day later with Members of the European Parliament in the INTA Committee and the following day within EU Trade Ministers Council, has the objective of describing the Trade Commissioner’s “new approach” to international investment law. On 8 July 2015, the European Parliament adopted a resolution containing “recommendations to the European Commission on the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)”. This article comments on these two documents.