The Canadian government plans to open free trade talks with the four-nation Mercosur trading bloc in South America, an official said on Friday, at a time when the future of NAFTA is facing increasing uncertainty....
Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is set to arrive in Paraguay on March 9 to launch talks with Mercosur, which also includes Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
The following was published in Part I of the Canada Gazette on February 10 and 17, 2018.
The following new documents are now available on the Canada.ca website:
EDN46 Excise Duty Rates on Spirits and Wine Effective April 1, 2018
The WTO’s latest World Trade Outlook Indicator (WTOI), released on 12 February, suggests that the trade recovery of 2017 should continue, with solid trade volume growth in the first quarter of 2018. The WTOI’s current value of 102.3 is little changed from the 102.2 recorded last November, indicating steady merchandise trade volume growth.
On August 28, 2017, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT), pursuant to subsection 76.03(3) of the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA), initiated an expiry review of its finding made on November 30, 2012, in Inquiry No. NQ 2012-002, concerning the dumping and subsidizing of certain steel piling pipe originating in or exported from the People’s Republic of China (China).
