To strengthen competitiveness, the SPP aims to assist North American businesses, producers and consumers maximize trade in goods and services within the North American continent, while ensuring that citizens maintain their high standards of health and safety. This will be achieved by efforts to ensure the compatibility of regulations and standards as well as to eliminate duplicative testing and certification requirements.
The SPP expresses the three countries’ commitment to explore new approaches that would enhance the competitiveness of North American industries and promote greater cooperation in specific sectors, for example the automobile and steel industries as well as others identified through consultative efforts.
Under the SPP, the countries have agreed to support North American competitiveness through a regulatory cooperation framework that promotes further collaboration. The three leaders have also created the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC). Comprised of 30 members of the private sector, with 10 representatives from each country, the NACC will provide strategic recommendations to government related to North American competitiveness.
Learn more about Canada’s SPP Working Groups
