ISDS Case Map
Canada
Canada has reached a trade agreement with India, one of the world's fastest growing economies, which will guarantee fair legal treatment for each other's investors.
Atlantica must be stopped
immediately and replaced by a project that would focus on fair trade, secure
employment and decent wages, according to the Public Service Alliance of
Canada (PSAC). Atlantica is a project of in-depth commercial deregulation and
free trade between Atlantic Canada, Eastern Quebec and the Northeast United
States.
A seven-year legal battle by the US postal carrier United Parcel Service of America (UPS) against Canada, brought under a controversial free trade agreement, has been dismissed, but advocacy groups say a provision that allows corporations to sue for lost profits should be permanently dropped.
David Emerson, minister of international trade, announced last week that Canada has successfully concluded a free trade agreement with the members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA): Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. This is Canada's first FTA in six years, and it took nine years to negotiate.
A landmark NAFTA decision this week dismissing allegations that Canada Post is competing unfairly has significantly restricted the rights of foreign investors to elbow their way into markets served by Crown corporations and other government enterprises.
International Trade Minister David Emerson says the successful completion of Canada's first free trade deal in six years will signal the country's re-emergence as a player on the global trade scene.
Canada Post said Tuesday it has defeated a NAFTA challenge from United Parcel Service of America Inc. that alleged the Crown corporation engages in unfair competition.
Dominican Republic could become a key regional center for the re-export of merchandise and services, through the mechanisms in the United States-Mexico-Canada trade triangle after it signs free trade pacts with the two latter countries, said the Foreign Ministry's head of Trade Negotiations today.
Free trade with Iceland and Liechtenstein is not exactly a hot political topic in Canada. But last week, Canada announced a deal with those two little countries along with Norway and Sweden - together they refer to themselves, rather grandly, as the European Free Trade Association. It's not much, but it's more than this country has accomplished in the trade arena is some time. Trade Minister David Emerson says there's more to come, to which Canadian exporters and consumers can only say: "It's about time."
The Canadian shipbuilding industry's feared loss of a protective tariff has come to pass and now the industry will have three years to adjust to new market conditions.
