EU AND CANADA IN LAST MINUTE TALKS OVER CHEESE QUOTA ACCESS AS CETA IMPLEMENTATION DEADLINE LOOMS
June 1st, 2017
TECHNICAL discussions between the European Union (EU) and Canada over cheese quotas are threatening to disrupt the planned operational launch of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) that was supposed to have been agreed in detail in February.
CETA is scheduled to come into force on July 1, but talks are ongoing about the administrative arrangements establishing how Canada will open up its cheese markets. Ottawa had agreed to accept 18,000 tonnes of EU-made cheese duty free.
An official at the European Commission’s directorate general for ...
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