Archive for the ‘Canada’ Category

Canada, Europe, News, Trade Agreements

December 1, 2022

The International Trade Council (ITC) applauds the decision of the German parliament to approve the free-trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Canada, taking an important step towards the full implementation of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).   The CETA, signed in 2016, has been provisionally applied since 2017, with most of […]

Canada, News

June 20, 2022

The International Trade Council (ITC) welcomes the decision of the Canadian government to ban the manufacturing and import of “harmful” single-use plastics. The new regulations, announced on 20 June 2022, will be effective from December 2023 and will prohibit the sale and import of checkout bags, utensils, food-service products with plastic that is difficult to […]