Trade Policy Issues

Trade policy has an impact on both Industry Canada and Industry Canada’s clients. For Industry Canada, trade policy establishes internationally agreed parameters to the legal and regulatory frameworks the department might develop. For Industry Canada clients, trade policy is the means by which international market access and international rules are established.

Industry Canada is involved with a variety of trade policy issues :

Competition

Corporate Social Responsibility

Dispute Settlement

Electronic Commerce

Government Procurement

Intellectual Property

Non-Tariff Measures

Rules of Origin/Customs

Safeguards

Subsidy/Countervail

Tariffs

Technical Barriers to Trade

Telecommunications

Trade and Environment

Trade and Labour

Trade and Sustainable Development

Trade and Technology Transfer

Trade Facilitation

Trade In Services

Working Group on Trade and Technology Transfer Meetings (WG3T)

International Investment