On July 1, 2017, Canada will implement a new agreement, the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), which is intended to reduce interprovincial barriers to trade. Fourteen units of government signed the new accord: the Canadian federal government, 10 provinces
The European Union and Canada are taking steps to ratify their trade pact, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which they completed in 2014 after six years of negotiations. The two sides plan to sign the agreement at a EU-Canada summit in
The U.S. lacks the mechanism for comprehensive sub-federal coverage in TTIP. As noted in an earlier posting, one of top priorities of the European Union’s (EU) in the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations is expansion