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February 05, 2010

Canada and US Agree (Finally!) to Resolve Buy America and Other Market Access Issues

A longstanding hindrance to bilateral market access has apparently been resolved today, as the United States and Canada reached agreement on an exemption for Canadian firms to the restrictions of the Buy America provisions of the Stimulus Act. In return, American firms will have greater access to provincial and other procurement opportunities to which they have heretofore been denied.

Click here for the CBC story.

Click here for a rather more political interpretation, provided by the Office of the US Trade Representative.

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