ABSTRACT
We will demonstrate in this chapter that today the strategic planners of American corporations can use a new type of competitive strategy against foreign rivals. In addition to general protectionist measures and other regulations on importers, they have politicized the US trade law investigations. Some Canadian firms also follow this political strategy, but it is less of an issue for the global economy due to the small size of the Canadian market compared to other members of the triad. Aimed mainly at the Japanese and Europeans, US protectionism really hurts its largest trading partner, Canada. To demonstrate the interactive nature of US corporate strategy and US protectionism, the framework developed in Chapter 1 is applied using cases involving resource products traded between Canada and the United States.
