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International trade agreements get all the media attention, but trade rules also govern commerce within Canada.

In international business law there is no room for trial-and-error; the issues are complex and mistakes are costly. Lawyers need to utilize every resource at their disposal. That includes knowledge from experts from outside the legal profession.

A panel of customs and income tax practitioners reviewed a case study exploring the relevant and emerging issues in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, such as the consequences of transfer pricing adjustments to previously accepted values for customs purposes...

Those Canadian businesses involved with strategic goods or technologies often find themselves having to register with the Canadian domestic Controlled Goods Program (“CGP”).

Warren Zevon said it best with his song “Lawyers, Guns and Money”. Prof. Bill Kosar has dodged RPGs in Afghanistan, gained intimate knowledge of the term “heat stroke” in Kuwait, acquired agility in the streets of Vietnam, jumped over dead bulls in South Sudan and almost bought a farm in Bosnia...

Each year, the Law Society punishes lawyers for "failing to be on guard against being duped by" or "becoming a tool or dupe of their ill-intentioned clients."

Recent investor-state arbitration cases under the United States-Central American Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement have seen important procedural and substantive legal developments.