Trade Corridors is an active research project into how and why trade moves between the United States and Canada.
Every day, more than $1.5 billion in trade passes between Canada and the U.S. Every. Single. Day Do you know how North American trade is carried on? Canada needs "a big idea" in order to understand and to maintain and cultivate its trading relationship with the United States. We propose trade corridors as the big idea best suited to bringing coherence to the largest bilateral trading relationship in the world.
Trade corridors have existed since the Silk Road and earlier. Further, trade corridors are now intentionally developed in Asia, in Europe, in Latin America, and in the Caribbean basin. There is a growing recognition that trade corridors are more than transportation infrastructure. We define trade corridors as:
DEFINITION: streams of products, services, and information moving within and through communities in geographic patterns according to a matrix or "culture of trade" agreements and treaties, statutes, delegated legislation, and customs that govern and guide trading relationships, institutions and structures.
Review our extensive publications on trade corridors .
Ontario's College of Trades will not be effective in solving the very real problems with trades in Ontario, and will almost definitely increase the financial and regulatory burden on an already troubled sector. The COT is a far-reaching piece of legislation offering little confidence the College will objectively and responsibly manage Ontario's trades.
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