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THE NEWLY finalised European Union (EU)-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will give European knitwear manufacturers an advantage over Canadian producers and could encourage European brands to set up operations in Canada, an industry leader in Ottawa has argued.

CETA includes mutual investment protection clauses for EU and Canada companies wanting to establish themselves or finance manufacturing in the other signatory jurisdiction.…

Pharmaceuticals are at the heart of the ambitious trade agreement whose final details have just been agreed between the European Union (EU) and Canada, with both sides agreeing that it will improve market access and facilitate innovation for drug companies on both sides of the Atlantic.…

CANADA will start developing capacity to produce hormone-free meat for the European Union (EU) market following the conclusion of an EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a senior European Commission official has said. The end of technical negotiations was formally announced on Friday (September 26) during an EU-Canada summit in Ottawa.…

THE EUROPEAN meat and livestock industry is anticipating the imminent lifting of BSE-related restrictions on European Union (EU) beef exports to Canada, as work on drafting an EU-Canada free trade agreement has concluded.

EU trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht told the European Parliament last week that the EU and Canada had completed their Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which will be unveiled on Friday in Ottawa.…

EURATEX, the Brussels-based European Apparel and Textile Confederation, yesterday hailed the completion of negotiations for a European Union (EU)-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, (CETA) adding however that it regrets that origin rules have been weakened for 15 garment clothing products under the deal.…

As anti-money laundering (AML) regulations become more complex and demanding, compliance technology and software providers are updating their solutions to screen more data, more efficiently, and present the results in a comprehensible way. Companies have been honing products to help clients switch to their software, dealing with problems such as incorporating old data from a legacy system; moving such data efficiently and accurately; and minimising errors by staff unused to the system.…

Trade–based money laundering (TBML) must be one of the oldest – and in some respects the simplest – forms of money laundering. You simply fake the invoice of a shipment so that the receiver of the goods gets something far more valuable (or possibly far less valuable, so that the ‘profit’ is made by the sender) than the price reported to the authorities.…

Canadian non-ferrous metal producers will be aided in accessing profitable European Union (EU) markets following Friday’s release of an EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) text in Ottawa, its industry leaders say. 

“Certainly we would welcome the opening of markets,” David Butler, executive director and general counsel at the Nickel Institute, told Metal Bulletin, underscoring the importance of the removal of tariffs and access to European markets for Canadian metal products and ores.…

THE CANADIAN auto industry has welcomed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) now negotiated between the European Union (EU) and Canada, but it may become more significant, if a trade deal is struck between the EU and the USA.

“The biggest issues with CETA, and what we’re excited about, is the removal of the EU 10% tariff,” said Jeffrey Pierce, policy analyst at Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, an industry association, whose members include Canada-based automotive manufacturers.…

THE END of European Union (EU) deliberations over whether to label Canadian oil sands as more polluting than conventional oil sources helped the EU and Canada agree a Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA), including energy policy, the Petroleum Review has been told.…