Wednesday, Carleton University | |
8h30 – 9h00 | Registration |
9h00 – 9h30 | Introduction to course
Phil Rourke, Director, Centre for Trade Policy and Law (CTPL) |
9h30 – 10h15 | Negotiation exercise |
10h15 – 10h30 | Break |
10h30 – 12h00 | Continuation of negotiation exercise
Lecture and discussion: Trade Negotiation Strategies and Tactics Facilitator: Phil Rourke, CTPL |
12h00 – 13h00 | Lunch |
13h00 – 14h15 | Strategy session Participants break out into negotiating team meetings for briefings on negotiation issues and to prepare their respective negotiation strategies with their coaches. |
14h15 – 14h30 | Break |
14h30 – 16h30 | Strategy session (continued) |
Thursday | |
8h30 – 9h15 | Team meetings: Final preparation for opening plenary |
9h15 – 9h45 | Opening plenary: Official launch NAFTA 2.0 negotiations |
9h45-10h45 | Working Group sessions |
10h45 – 11h00 | Break |
11h00 – 12h00 | Working Group sessions (continued) |
12h00 – 13h00 | Lunch |
13h00 – 14h00 | Working Group sessions (continued) |
14h30 – 14h45 | Break |
14h45 – 16h00 | Working Group sessions (continued) |
16h00 – 16h30 | Team strategy session Canadian, US and Mexican teams meet separately to discuss progress in working groups and plot strategy for next meeting of working groups |
Friday | |
8h45 – 9h15 | Team meetings |
9h15 – 10h30 | Working Group sessions. Second meeting of working groups on each negotiation issue, with a focus on negotiating draft text |
10h30 – 10h45 | Break |
10h45 – 12h00 | Bilateral negotiation sessions (cont.)Second meeting of working groups on each negotiation issue to finalize text |
12h00 – 13h00 | Lunch |
13h00 – 14h30 | Bilateral negotiation sessions (cont.) |
14h30 – 14h45 | Break |
14h30 – 15h15 | Concluding plenary A concluding session to finalize the terms agreed to during the First Working Group on NAFTA 2.0 and determine the agenda for the next meeting |
15h15 – 16h30 | Debrief on Negotiation Simulation |