Just got off the phone with Chris Braddock, director of procurement policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, based in Washington, D.C. He's just a tad frustrated with Buy American – the riders added to short-term stimulus funding that imply only U.S. companies can bid on stimulus-related contracts at the ...

Canada has decided to take its issue with the U.S. country-of-origin-labelling rules (also known as COOL) to the World Trade Organization.

Anyone who's been following the Doha round at the World Trade Organization (even if that someone's only been following casually--and really who could take it full-time?) cannot even pretend to be surprised that yet again the trade talks have faltered.