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November 16, 2006 |
- Consultations
on the Development of WTO GATS Disciplines on Domestic Regulation
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
Article VI:4 mandates the development of any necessary disciplines
to ensure that measures relating to qualification requirements,
qualification procedures, licensing requirements, licensing
procedures, and technical standards do not become unnecessary
barriers to trade...
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November 14, 2006 |
- Canada and Peru Sign FIPA
Canada and Peru signed a Foreign Investment Protection and
Promotion Agreement (FIPA) at a bilateral meeting on the
margins of the APEC Joint Ministerial meeting...
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October 26, 2006 |
- Learn more about Canada's bilateral investment program
A new document has been published that outlines the objective
and content of the FIPA program, discusses how these treaties
are used to provide protection for Canadian investment abroad,
and answers important questions about FIPAs in practice...
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June 8, 2006 |
- Canada’s International
Market Access Priorities (CIMAP)
We are pleased to present the 2006 edition of Opening Doors
to the World: Canada’s International Market Access
Priorities (CIMAP) report and commercial barriers database.
CIMAP outlines the Government’s market access plans
and priorities by geographical region and country, highlights
market access results with the previous year, details Canada’s
involvement in multilateral and bilateral market access
initiatives and identifies foreign commercial barriers (e.g.,
regulations, tariffs, import controls) in key markets...
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April 10, 2006 |
- Consultations
on the Development of the Canada-Japan Joint Study
The Government of Canada is seeking the views of Canadian
stakeholders on a joint study it is undertaking with the
Government of Japan designed to examine the implications
of further promotion and liberalization of bilateral trade
and investment. The joint study is a key component of the
Canada-Japan Economic Framework that was signed by the two
governments on November 19, 2005, as a means of reinforcing
the bilateral economic relationship...
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February 28, 2006 |
- GATS - Market Access
- Plurilateral Requests (February 2006)
Ministers from WTO Member countries met in Hong
Kong, China, December 13 - 18, 2005 for the Sixth WTO Ministerial
Conference. One of the key outcomes of the Hong Kong Ministerial
meeting was an agreement among Ministers to commence a plurilateral
request-offer negotiating process as a means of advancing
the services negotiations...
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