Banana ruling boosts U.S. in C-55 fight

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The US is pressuring Canada to retreat from its planned restrictions on foreign magazines. Canada has drafted Bill C-55 which bans Canadians from advertising on split-run editions. The US warned the C-55 mocks the WTO dispute settlement process and threatened to impose punitive tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Canadian steel, wood, plastics and apparel products. Canada has earlier lost an appeal on a WTO ruling that ruled down a steep excise tax the denied the access of foreign magazines to the C$500-million-a-year Canadia advertising market.

International economic relations, Periodicals, Periodical Publishers, Periodical publishing

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Canadians see end to RRSP bind

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The SEC is expected to remove restrictions that prevent Canadians living in the US from securing advice from their Canada-based brokers on managing retirement and pension funds. The move by securities regulators to propose the exemption will allow US-based Canadians to communicate with their brokers in Canada when they make stock purchases and swap investments for financial plans.

Government regulation, Pension Funds & Benefit Plans, Pension Funds, Securities Brokerage, Stockbrokers

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Klein lashes out at mad-cow fears gripping Far East

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The premier of Alberta, Canada, Ralph Klein, said that fears about a mad-cow disease outbreak in Korea and in Japan are irrational. Klein said that the fears are hurting efforts to end the U.S.'s ban on beef imports from Canada.

South Korea, Japan, Foreign trade, Imports, International trade, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Contamination, Beef industry, Klein, Ralph

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