Finance committee  Sure. These tariff increases are on thousands and thousands of products. Just imagine an example. You get up in the morning and you brush your teeth; well, there's now a higher tariff on the toothbrush. You go downstairs, you get your newspaper that's lying on the doormat; well,

Finance committee  Yes. The 9948 exemption may or may not apply to these items depending on whom you ask.

Finance committee  The system as it stands right now is already incredibly complex. Whenever the Auditor General looks at this, which goes back 20 or 30 years, he or she finds somewhere between one in five to one in three of these products being classified incorrectly by the importer. You have impo

Finance committee  A little bit. My larger concern is the fact that tariffs are going up on thousands and thousands of items, increasing prices for Canadian consumers. Certainly, this isn't helping those red tape issues.

Finance committee  It's very strange, because the countries that we're in trade negotiations with, such as those in the EU, aren't affected by this plan, and countries that are affected, such as China and Brazil, we're not in trade negotiations with. If you imagine a Venn diagram, that little overl

Finance committee  I would like to thank the committee for inviting me to speak today. My name is Mike Moffatt. I'm a professor in the business, economics and public policy group at the Richard Ivey School of Business. I have researched and taught international trade for a number of years at Ivey.