Zara Liaqat

Zara Liaqat is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Waterloo. Her teaching portfolio encompasses a wide range of courses, including international trade and international finance. Zara’s current research and expertise are in the fields of international and labor economics.

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Learning from the 2017 softwood lumber dispute

A day after the US Thanksgiving holiday in November 2016, the US Lumber Coalition filed petitions for countervailing and antidumping duties against Canadian lumber imports. Five months later, the US Department of Commerce issued its …

TPP 2.0 a complex solution for challenging times

Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) rise from the dead? It’s a question that will preoccupy Canadian officials as they sit down at the table this summer with the US and Mexico to discuss revising NAFTA. …