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WEBINAR: RESTRUCTURING GLOBAL TRADE AMIDST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A MATRIX OF CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Date and Time
Wednesday Oct 7, 2020
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDTLocation
Online
Fees/Admission
FREE
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Amanda Stewart
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Webinar Details:
Host: The Conference Board of Canada
Date: Wednesday, October 7
Time: 2 p.m.
Cost: FreeWhat changes, both evolutionary and revolutionary, are occurring in the global economy amidst the COVID-19 pandemic? How are the global economic relationships developed in the post-Second World War Era being restructured or disrupted?
In this one-hour and 30 minute-webinar, Raj Bhala, Brenneisen Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas School of Law, will analyse these changes at the three levels of International Trade Law and Policy:
- Multilateral
- Regional
- Bilateral
At each level, the analysis will isolate changes caused principally by COVID-19, those it indirectly caused, and the ones unrelated to it, including a discussion on the implications for Canadian businesses.
WEBINAR HIGHLIGHTS
- The game is changing. Now and for the foreseeable future, efficiency has given way to national security (including self-judged threats such as a pandemic) as the principal driver of International Trade Law and Policy.
- COVID-19 is a catalyst for some of the changes, but most of them are caused by forces indirectly related to the pandemic, or unrelated to it—forces that pre-date and will outlast the pandemic.
- The revolutions are occurring at each of the three levels at which International Trade Law and Policy is negotiated, drafted, textualized, and applied: Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral.
- To manage those threats, trade rules and practices are being deployed to manage trade itself, including import substitution measures to reorganize production to create more secure supply chains.
- While the present global environment is a challenging one for a modestly-sized open economy like Canada’s, Canada is well positioned for the long-term to take advantage of trade and investment linkages through its extraordinary network of FTAs.
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