Juristalks: Navigating Trump Tariffs and Chinese Overcapacity: Canada’s Challenging Trade Outlook

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

• In-person event
• D492, Loeb Building, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

During the Biden administration, Canada began aligning its trade policy closely with the United States. It followed its neighbor in imposing tighter restrictions on Chinese foreign direct investment and mirrored American China-specific tariffs on electric vehicles and steel. Moreover, together with other western states, Canada used the G7 to coordinate in the face of Chinese economic coercion and non-market practices. The election has upended that alignment. Canada now faces economic threats not only from China, but also the United States. The talk will dissect Canada’s perilous economic security position from a legal and policy perspective and evaluate possible pathways forward.

This event will be hybrid. A Zoom link will be sent to participants upon registration. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.

Please register below if you wish to attend.

About the speaker: Wolfgang Alschner is an empirical legal scholar specialized in international economic law and the computational analysis of law. He holds the Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law. He is an Associate Professor at the Common Law Section with cross-appointment to the Faculty of Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also a faculty member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa and heads the uOttawa Legal Technology Lab.

Wolfgang holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, a Master of Law from Stanford Law School, a Master in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute as well as an LLB from the University of London and a BA in International Relations from the University of Dresden, Germany.