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Article: Canada Inks FTA With Peru, Concludes Negotiations With Colombia.(free trade agreement )
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- June 16, 2008
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Canada's most recent free trade agreement (FTA) with Peru, signed on May 29, 2008, is the second FTA to be signed this year and Canada's fourth FTA in the Americas (NAFTA, Chile and Costa Rica are the others). The Canada-Peru FTA is a comprehensive agreement comparable in scope to NAFTA, with side agreements on labour and the environment - unlike this year's earlier FTA between Canada and the States of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland), described as a "first-generation" agreement limited to tariff elimination.
Further, on June 7, 2008, Canada announced the conclusion of FTA negotiations with ...