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Canada
For the first time in six years, Canada has negotiated a new free-trade agreement - one which could cost the Atlantic shipbuilding industry hundreds of jobs.
Trade Minister David Emerson, denouncing those who fear Canadians can't compete internationally, announced Thursday a new strategy that includes the first free trade deal Canada has struck in six years.
Canada and four European nations have completed negotiations for a free trade agreement, the country's trade minister said on Thursday, saying Ottawa needs to seal more such deals to compete globally.
Canadian trade officials will be carefully examining the free trade agreement recently inked by South Korea and the United States and applying any lessons learned to their own ongoing negotiations with the Asian country.
Canada's ultimate goal in its deepening economic relations with China will be a free-trade deal with the Asian juggernaut, International Trade Minister David Emerson said yesterday.
It's really not a secret accord. On March 23, 2005, presidents George W. Bush of the United States, Vicente Fox of Mexico, and Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada issued a joint declaration giving life to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPPNA), also known as NAFTA-plus, or North American Free Trade Agreement plus other accords.
Vietnam's assistant foreign affairs minister says Canada and members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) are "optimistic" about a free trade agreement, but doesn't want to speculate as to when such a deal would come to fruition.
Quebec's minority government will seek a free-trade agreement with Ontario as part of Premier Jean Charest's attempt to revive the province's economy and regain popular support. Mr. Charest also reiterated his proposal to seek a free-trade deal with the European Union.
Canadian exporters are facing discrimination in Latin America and elsewhere because of exclusive trade pacts the United States has with those countries, Trade Minister David Emerson has complained.
When Bolivian President Evo Morales took office in January 2006, he pledged to follow through on his campaign pledge to increase Bolivians' share of revenues from their major source of foreign income, natural gas. International gas companies, however, threatened to sue. Previous Bolivian governments had signed a flurry of bilateral investment treaties that gave foreign investors the right to bypass domestic courts and file such lawsuits through international tribunals. Morales complained that these rules made him feel like a “prisoner” in the presidential palace.
