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Canada


Canada has signed free trade agreements with the US, the US-and-Mexico (NAFTA), Costa Rica, Chile, Israel, Colombia, Peru and EFTA. It has also concluded talks with Jordan.

The government has also signed an Economic Framework Agreement with Japan and about 25 bilateral investment treaties.

Ottawa is currently in bilateral trade deal talks, or in the process of considering them, with Korea, Singapore, India, the so-called "Central America Four" (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua), the Dominican Republic, the Andean Community, CARICOM, Morocco and the EU (CETA).

last update: May 2012

Photo: Creative Commons CC0

See also
Canada targets FTA with Philippines within the year
30-Jun-2015     Business World
The Canadian government wants to hold exploratory talks with the Philippines for a potential Free Trade Agreement (FTA) within the year, to cover as much ground as possible before an upcoming change in administration.
Six tough questions about the China trade deal
22-Jun-2015     The Tyee
Gus Van Harten, author of 'Sold Down the Yangtze,' breaks down the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement's impacts.
Ukraine, Canada to speed up FTA talks
22-Jun-2015     InterFax
Poroshenko and Harper have agreed to speed up talks concerning the formation of a free trade area between Ukraine and Canada.
Canada's new trade deals good for Canadian corporations, bad for African democracy
9-Jun-2015     rabble.ca
What do we call it when Ottawa signs a deal with an unelected regime that would prevent any future elected government in a small African nation from changing its laws regulating Canadian-owned mines for almost two decades?
Sold down the Yangtze: Canada's lopsided investment deal with China
25-May-2015     Gus Van Harten
In Sold Down the Yangtze, investment treaty expert Gus Van Harten offers a searing critique of Canada's 31-year investment deal with China, which could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
Failed Free-Trade Agreement negotiations between Caricom, Canada disappointing — Bartlett
18-May-2015    
Opposition spokesman on Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade Edmund Bartlett is expressing disappointment at the failed Free-Trade Agreement negotiations between Caricom and Canada.
PH, Canada mull free trade pact
11-May-2015     PDI
Philippine President Benigno Aquino and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have agreed to explore the possibility of forging a free trade agreement.
Ukraine intends to sign FTA agreement with Canada, says economy minister
27-Jan-2015    
The signing of a free trade agreement (FTA) between Ukraine and Canada will promote an increase in goods turnover between the two countries and the inflow of Canadian investment to Ukraine, Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Minister Aivaras Abromavicius has said.
Harper goverment talks free trade in Kiev as fighting intensifies
25-Jan-2015     Canadian Press
Canada's International Trade Minister will be in Kiev to talk free trade with his counterpart as fighting intensifies between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the east of the embattled country.
Canada considers free trade with Thailand despite internal warnings
19-Dec-2014     Globe and Mail
The Canadian government is exploring the idea of free trade with Thailand despite internal warnings from Foreign Affairs officials that Ottawa should hold back while the Asian country remains under control of a military junta.

Referenced sites

Canada's BITs and FTAs

Canada's bilateral investment treaties (Foreign Investment Protection and Promotions Acts) and free trade agreements

CUPE

Canadian Union of Public Employees's trade webpage

RQIC

Le Réseau Québécois sur l'Intégration Continentale fait campagne contre les accords de libre-échange