- Negotiations
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
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21-Jan-2016
Embassy
It’s unclear where China’s requests end and its demands begin.
21-Jan-2016
Embassy
CETA, China, softwood lumber among government’s top trade priorities for 2016. Canada’s government is willing to address ISDS concerns.
19-Jan-2016
Financial Post
Suzanne Paquin Leylekian regularly imports materials from Finland, China and other countries with which Canada has no free trade agreement.
15-Jan-2016
The Globe and Mail
China wants to forge a trade deal with Canada but this will require Canadian concessions on investment restrictions and a commitment to build an energy pipeline to the coast.
8-Jan-2016
Toronto Star
“Restarting” the relationship with China is a major economic and foreign policy priority for the new prime minister, says a senior government official.
7-Jan-2016
The Globe and Mail
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intends to play an activist role in promoting Canadian business and investment with a major trade mission to China and India and a keynote address to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
28-Oct-2015
Edge
Why FIPA makes the territorial government’s hot pursuit of trade with this superpower toxic for the North.
2-Oct-2015
The Star
What little we know about the Harper government’s many international trade deals is cause for grave concern.
21-Sep-2015
Troy
Canada’s commitments to China were written in cement while China’s promises to Canada were written in sand
19-Aug-2015
The News Review
The Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), ratified in 2014, is a license to be unfair to Canadians.
Links
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Canada’s bilateral investment treaties (Foreign Investment Protection and Promotions Acts) and free trade agreements
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Canadian Union of Public Employees’s trade webpage
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