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On February 18, 2011, Canada's auto industry met with Canada's Industry Minister about the Canada-Korea FTA negotiations. The meeting included representatives from five automobile manufacturers in Canada and representatives from...

On February 11, 2011, Canada's Minister of International Trade announced that Canada is pursuing free trade agreement negotiations with Honduras. Canada and Honduras agreed to pursue bilateral negotiations toward a free trade...

On February 4, 2011, Prime Minister Harper and President Obama plan to make an announcement (so we are told by The Globe & Mail) concerning the creation of a high level working group on border security and regulatory convergence....

On January 27, 2011, Prime Minister Harper announced that Canada has launched free trade negotiations with Morocco. A formal announcement has been posted on the Prime Minister's web-site. The news release states:

Prime Minister...

This blog posting on the ABCs of the Canada-European Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) can be adapted for most free trade agreement negotiations. As the 6th Round Canada-EU CETA negotiations is starting on January...

On January 6, 2011, the Canada's Minister of Trade, Peter Van Loan, met with Canada's Indo-Canadian community and indicated that the Harper Government wants to learn what they would like to see in a free trade agreement. Here is...

The European Union required that the Canadian provinces be at the negotiating tables where Canadian and EU officials negotiated the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. This was a good idea seeing that important...

After years of preliminary discussions, on November 12, 2010, Canada and India have announced that they have launched free trade agreement (to be called a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)) negotiations. The...

On November 6, 2010, Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade published a notice in the Canada Gazette commencing brief consultations concerning the modernization of the Canada-Costa Rica Free Trade...

Talk about perfect timing! The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) issued a decision on October 13, 2010 in the case of Bayshore Healthcare Ltd. (doing business as Bayshore Home Health) (PR-2010-065). The timing of the...

On October 18, 2010, Canada's International Trade Minister, Peter Van Loan, opened the Fifth Round and Canada-EU CETA 9Comprehensive economic and Trade Agreement) negotiations - here is the video...

Cyndee Todgham Cherniak joined guest James Cowan, John Manley, Weran Jiang and Dan Trefler on The Agenda With Steve Paikin on October 5, 2010 -

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On September 24, 2010, India's Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Anand Sharma and Canada's Minister of International Trade, Mr. Peter Van Loan issued a joint statement on trade and investment initiatives. please go to the...

On September 23, 2010, the Government of Canada tabled in the House of Commons for debate Bill C-46 "An Act to implement the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the Republic of Panama, the Agreement on the Environment...

An interesting article has been posted on Pacific Free Press entitled "Stopping CETA Undermining Canadian Law". No wonder it caught my attention. For a copy, please go to...

During the week of April 19, 2010, the Canadian and EU negotiators met (in person and by teleconference) during the third round of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Canada-EU CETA)...