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ARTICLE · 25 OCTOBER 2013

Canada And European Union Announce Sweeping Free Trade Agreement

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The Canadian and European Union governments today announced an "agreement in principle" to enter into a wide-ranging free trade agreement.

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Susan Hutton
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The Canadian and European Union governments today announced an "agreement in principle" to enter into a wide-ranging free trade agreement. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), if it is ultimately completed and ratified, would immediately eliminate 98% of all Canada-EU tariffs and would greatly facilitate trade, investment and the movement of labour between Canada and the EU.

According to a joint Canada-EU study at the launch of negotiations, the CETA could increase bilateral trade by 20% and yield an annual benefit of $12 billion to the Canadian economy. Both the Canadian and EU governments have expressed confidence that the CETA will be completed and fully ratified by 2015.

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