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TORONTO – With a Canada-UK Continuity of Trade Agreement (CTA) in place, you can enjoy your scotch whiskey in a Toronto pub without additional tariffs. If such an agreement were not in place, our country could have potentially been slammed with a bill of £17,500 for trying to export bananas to the UK, as what happened to Ghana.
TORONTO – Il governo dell’Ontario ha annunciato ieri i dieci membri del Premier’s Council on U.S. Trade and Industry Competitiveness e fra loro c’è anche Flavio Volpe (nella foto sopra, dal suo profilo Twitter: https://twitter.com/FlavioVolpe1), sotto la cui guida l’Associazione dei produttori di componenti per autoveicoli (APMA) – l’associazione nazionale canadese che rappresenta i fornitori di apparecchiature originali per l’industria automobilistica mondiale – ha conosciuto uno sviluppo del settore di un valore tra i $ 6 e gli $ 8 miliardi di volumi incrementali annui…
TORONTO — Today, the Ontario government announced the ten members of the Premier’s Council on U.S. Trade and Industry Competitiveness. “The creation of this council comes at a critical time for the Ontario economy as certain players in the U.S. bang the drum of protectionism,” said Premier Doug Ford.
TORONTO/ROME – Since the entry into force of Ceta, the Global Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union, trade between Italy and Canada has increased by more than 22% and Italian exports of goods and services to Canada are increased by 25% with the creation of 63,000 jobs in Italy: these are some of the numbers contained in the report that the Canadian Ambassador to Italy, Alexandra Bugailiskis (in the pic, from the Italian government website), presented to the European Union Policy Commission of the Senate. Numbers that, according to the Ambassador, suggest that CETA will play a decisive role in the post-pandemic recovery and “will help make our economies stronger, greener and more sustainable”. (more…)
“Ethical sourcing” and “fair trade” are four words that have made headways in the past decade and continue to do so. They’re not the same but are related closely in meaning. (more…)
