International Trade Law Canada - a brief primer for importers and exporters
The global trade market provides valuable opportunity for Canadian importers and exporters. Complying with Canada’s international trade law is an inescapable part of successfully leveraging trade relationships that Canada maintains around the globe.
Make qualification easier by considering your costs
Your manufacturing costs are greater than 50% of the total sales price of your manufactured goods. Do they automatically qualify for USMCA/CUSMA?
Certificates of origin (COO) for Free Trade Agreements (FTA): everything you need to know
We’ve written recently about the changes and new requirements for certification of origin for North America’s newest trade agreement, CUMSA/USMCA. Read more about that here.
USMCA/CUSMA a go for July 1
Trade attorneys have confirmed the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA, USMCA, T-MEC) will enter into force on July 1, 2020.
Canada passes CUSMA implementation legislation—no ratification yet
Special Notice: Trade attorneys have confirmed the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement will enter into force on July 1, 2020. Canada rushed through a deal to pass implementation legislation for the CUSMA (Canada-U.S.-Mexico) trade agreement on March 13, 2020 before suspending parliament to help curb the spread of coronavirus.
CPTPP: Pacific Rim Countries Press “GO” on a New Trade Agreement
CPTPP, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, is a free trade agreement between Canada and ten other member states. There have been some substantive developments since we posted our previous blog on the CPTPP last April and the implementation date is just around the corner.
A new "NAFTA"... The USMCA
After more than a year of intense meetings and negotiations, Canada, the U.S. and Mexico have tentatively settled on a trade deal to replace NAFTA. In the final round of meetings that concluded at the end of September, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was unveiled, sporting changes in the following.
NAFTA update: September, 2018
*USMCA/CUSMA replaced NAFTA on July 1st, 2020. Read More... NAFTA is again in the news as the three parties – Canada, Mexico and the U.S. – have wrapped up a series of meetings and a new agreement could finally be in sight. But only maybe. Background information on this important agreement and some of the earlier.
NAFTA Update - May 2018
*USMCA/CUSMA replaced NAFTA on July 1st, 2020. Read More... Canada, the U.S. and Mexico – neighbours who trade more than $1 trillion per year among them – have been negotiating since August to rework the North American Free Trade Agreement.
NAFTA update: February, 2018
*USMCA/CUSMA replaced NAFTA on July 1st, 2020. Read More... Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, neighbours who trade more than $1 trillion annually, have been negotiating since August to rework this 24-year-old trade deal between them. But NAFTA talks are moving slowly as Canada and Mexico seek to address a series of radical.
