Given Australia's disappointment over Canada's last-minute TPP snub, Trade Minister Steven Ciobo likely had no hesitation in lodging the complaint over wine.
Three analyses of Asia's business environment have highlighted the economic diplomacy challenges involved in reaping the White Paper's promised opportunity.
Australia's best hope is that Canada, which shares our position as a major net user of IP, will work hard in the NAFTA negotiations to defend our common interests.
The RBA leadership is clearly thinking about the possibility that the relationship between inflation and output growth may have altered in an enduring way.
It was always part of the Trump agenda to do something about the North American Free Trade Agreement (‘one of the worst deals ever’) covering the US, Canada and Mexico: the outcome is renegotiation rather than the threatened termination.
There is a parallel in how SOEs burst into the mining industry after 2007 and how new Chinese donors have burst into the political and university scene.
Sam Roggeveen’s discussion with Allan Gyngell is a reminder that the Washington Consensus means different things to different people. Let’s try to sort out the diverse interpretations.