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The cord is too short for my F150 super cab pickup truck, I need to use my jumper cables for extension. The pressure gauge is inaccurate forcing the use of a separate pressure gauge. I've only used this pump 4 times and I hope it lasts. The quality seems good but time/use will tell. Works great to quickly fill my air bags.
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I have bought a few air compressors and they went poo poo after a year. They would inflate about 15 min for 32 psi as well. This one does it in less than a minute. If I have to use this often (given my problems with my rims), it may hold up for a long time. Best bang for the buck (for me at least).


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Migration Shift: A Return to Normal
By WILLIAM K. STEVENS
Published: October 1, 1987
After a volatile decade in which economic dislocations forced millions of Americans to move to other regions, migration within the United States generally appears to have settled back into a more stable pattern, according to new Census Bureau estimates and other Government data.
Michigan, rebounding from huge population losses after the automobile industry's painful contraction and restructuring in the early 1980's, lost only 4,000 people to other states from July 1985 to July 1986, says the new report on state population trends. The report was released today in Washington.
Texas, which gained more than 400,000 new residents a year from other states at the peak of its oil boom and saw the torrent fade to a trickle in the bust that followed, has bounced back and settled at an intermediate level. Texas has gained more than 100,000 people from other states in each of the last two years, the census figures show, and its overall population growth remains brisk. Marginal Growth in Northeast
The overall population of the Northeast has stablized with only marginal growth, the report said.
''It really hasn't changed much since 1983,'' said Edwin Byerly, a Census Bureau demographer and statistician who wrote the report. Through most of the decade the Northeast's population ''has hovered around 49 million,'' he said, adding: ''It just did hit 50 million in July 1986. It's not really losing, but it isn't gaining much, either.''
But Mr. Byerly said the outflow of people from New York and Massachusetts, which was stanched and then reversed in the early 1980's, had resumed at modest levels: a total of 55,000 people left New York in 1985 and 1986, and 13,000 left Massachusetts in the same period.
The Northeast Corridor appears to be doing somewhat better than the Northeast as a whole, the report said. New Jersey, for example, is gaining residents from other states at an accelerating rate. From 1985 to 1986, 25,000 more people moved into New Jersey than moved out.
Since 1980, according to census estimates released last July, the New York metropolitan area has regained much of the population it lost in the 1970's, and at its current growth rate it will gain it all back by 1990. The Philadelphia-Wilmington metropolitan area, also on the rebound, has already surpassed its 1970 population. Detroit Population Rebounds
The July report also showed that the Detroit metropolitan area, for years a symbol of distress in the nation's industrial midsection, had reversed its population slide and begun growing again from 1984 to 1986.
Taken together, demographers say, all of this reflects a subsiding of the most severe economic shocks of the late 1970's and early 1980's and a return to a steadier, less volatile, decades-old movement of people southward and westward from the older cities of the North and the East.
''These shocks happen every once in a while and things run down after that,'' said Thomas A. Plane, a geographer at the University of Arizona.
The long-term movement of people southward and westward was confirmed and delineated by the new census figures, which detail estimated population changes in the states from 1980 to 1986.
While the population of New England and the Middle Atlantic States increased by 1.8 percent from April 1980 to July 1986, the report said, that of the Mountain and Pacific States grew by 12.9 percent. The population of the Middle West grew by less than 1 percent, according to the estimates, while that of the South increased by 10.1 percent.
The report estimated that the population of the United States was 241 million on July 1, 1986, an increase of 14.5 million, or 6.4 percent, from 1980.
The major exception to the return of steadier, long-term migration and growth patterns was Iowa and some of its distressed neighboring farm states. Iowa's population has declined every year of this decade, the report found, and its total decrease of 2.2 percent from 1980 to 1986 was the most precipitous of any state.
The report also said Iowa posted the highest rate of population loss to other states, with a net migration loss of 166,000 people in the six-year period, or 5.7 percent of its 1980 population. Net migration is the difference between the number of people moving into a state and the number moving out. Along with births and deaths, it determines population change.
From 1980 to 1986, slightly fewer people moved into the Northeast than moved out of it, the report found. The region's net migration loss was 386,000 people, below 1 percent of its 1980 population. The net migration loss in the Midwest, however, was much greater: more than 2 million, or 3.4 percent of the region's 1980 population. Sun Belt Migration Gains
The South showed a net migration gain of 5.3 percent, and the West 6.1 percent. In all, 4 million more people moved into the South than moved out of it. The comparable figure for the West was 2.6 million.
The net migration loss by the Northeast and the Midwest to the South and the West has declined sharply in recent years, according to Dr. Plane's calculations, based on an Internal Revenue Service tabulation of state-to-state movements of taxpayers and their families.
Dr. Plane estimated that in 1978 and 1979, a peak year for migration from the Northeast, the region lost a total of 323,000 taxpayers and dependents to the South and the West. The figure dropped steadily in the ensuing years and remained roughly steady, from 167,000 to 171,000, from 1982 to 1985.
Similarly, the Middle West lost 478,000 residents to the South and the West in 1981 and 1982, the peak years of the exodus. The figure dropped to 305,000 from 1984 to 1985.
Graph compares population increases with net migration for all regions of the U.S. (Source: Census Bureau)


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Rehearsals, for the first of our 3 concert series, will begin on Monday, Sept. 8 at Chatham Middle School, 480 Main St. Chatham, NJ. Rehearsals run from 7:30-10:00 p.m. in the Band Room.
The fall concert, on Sunday, Nov. 16 at 3:00 pm, will include: Beethoven: Egmont Overture; Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor; and Beethoven: Symphony #4.
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From the team that originally developed Left 4 Dead comes the next iteration of four-player cooperative combat. Evolve is a 4v1, meaning four players will team up against a lone wolf in an asymmetric multiplayer FPS. The four player team will include four class-based characters -- an Assault, a Trapper, a Medic and a Support class. There will be multiple characters for each class, but each class must be represented in each game. The lone wolf will be the monster, of which there will also be multiple options. Whether it be a flying, lightning shooting Cthulhu or a charging, smashing giant ape of a monstrosity, there's no team at a disadvantage in Evolve.
In addition to the 4v1 matchmaking multiplayer, Evolve will also have a single-player campaign. Unfortunately, details regarding this mode have yet to be revealed.
Two characters from each class have been revealed up to this point, with more planned. Assault characters include Hyde, a flamethrower-wielding psychopath, and Markov, whose love of battle is only paralleled by the size of his lightning gun. Maggie is a quiet Trapper who lets her "pet" dogbeast Trapjaw be both her bark and her bite, while Trapper Griffin would probably rather have Trapjaw mounted on his wall -- likely held there with giant harpoons. Medic Lazarus returns life to the dead, while Val prefers to heal folk before they turn to corpses. Finally we have the Support class featuring Bucket and Hank. Bucket's a robot who fights with drones and sentry turrets, while Hank look like he could have made Bucket in his garage with spare truck parts.
For such a crew no simple monster suffice. That's why the Evolve game masters dredged up the Kraken and Goliath to hunt. Like mentioned before the Kraken can evolve to fly, shoot lightning and otherwise devour nightmares, while the Goliath likes the let his fists (and his rank breath) do the talking.
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The Most Helpful Barclays Bank Reviews
The most helpful favorable review
I currently have checking, savings, and CD's at Ally Bank, but need better interest rates, so came to Barclays Bank.
Setting up an online account will take you awhile. It will also test your patience, but once you get it down, you will be amazed at how good this bank has become. Since they currently do not offer checking accounts, I would strongly recommend opening your checking at Ally Bank on line, then establish a direct transfer of funds from Ally to Barclay (FREE) to deposit your savings as Barclays. They are #1 for interest rates at the present time in the US. Trust me, if there were better banks than Ally and Barclay, I wouldn't be with them. You can find all banking information online. I have an account with Bank of America and they are the worst of the worst, they will be closing their doors any day now and leaving the customers holding only the FDIC funds, they suck big time!
The most helpful critical review
I accumulated over 111,000 miles on my Barclaycard arrival card account. worth at least $1110 if redeemed for travel related purchases. the Bank decided that giving 2.2% on all purchases is to custy to them, so they closed my account for no reason and are refusing to give me my rewards.
Latest Barclays Bank Reviews
LReviewed By Littleguy Sep 21, 2016
Bad Experience with Barclay's
I have an Aviator Master Card that uses Barclay's Bank. Generally, credit card companies have been very good to me because I pay off my balance and have a great credit rating. Not so with this card. My statement balance is due on the 16th of the month. Barclay's has a cut off time of 7 p.m. I paid my bill on the 16th but at 7:43 p.m. They charged me both interest and a late fee. Most companies would waive the fees. Not here. Spoke to several managers and they were tough. Never had such a bad experience with a credit card company given the circumstances. A word to the wise here. Don't expect anything from these guys. My decision is not to use Barclay's in the future. I was told it was their policy. I think it was pretty harsh. Some people don't pay their bills at all but 43 minutes?Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
AReviewed By Another_customer Sep 12, 2016
Beware their Deferred Financing Program with Apple
I had to get an Apple computer for my daughter for school. Apple offers to "defer" finance charges on the purchase by having you sign up for the Barclays Visa card, saying that so long as you make your payments and pay off the purchase before the deferral period, there will be no finance charge (on $2000+ laptop, this come to around $580 or so).
What nobody tells you (Apple or Barclays) is that if you use the same Visa card for any other purchases, all the money you pay them goes towards the "new" purchases and ZERO dollars go towards the deferred purchase. I called Barclays and spoke to 3 different people. There is no provision to make any payments directly to the deferred purchase. ALL monies paid on your credit card bill will only be applied to all purchases until your account balance is at zero, then any new payments you make will go towards the deferred purchase. If you don't clear your credit card balance and then pay off the deferred finance purchase by then end of the promotional period, Barclay gets to collect on that finance charge simply because there is no way for you make payments towards that promotional amount.
Long story short, if you opt for the Apple/Barclay deferred financing when you purchase from Apple, DO NOT USE that Visa card for anything until the deferred purchase is paid off.Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
CReviewed By coolfella Jun 27, 2016
Worst Service Period!
I had two fraudulent transections Oct 2015. I reported them couple of days after they are posted when I found out after reviewing online statment. They only removed one, not both so they charged late fees and interests. I called back again telling them what happened. They said everything was taken care of and will show up on the next statement. They charged another interest and late charged. I called again to correct it. They again said it wasn't showing on the statement online but will show up on the next statement. Guess what? They charged another late fee with interest and reported to TransUnion and my credit score went down more than 100. When I called, they said they can't do anything at the moment. What an irresponsible company!! Beware!! They do whatever they want to do and don't care about the customers!!!Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
PReviewed By pam143scott May 27, 2016
Worst Credit Card Company. Should have zero or negative rating. Stay away from this company.
Within my few months experience with Barclays, I say I am disappointed and I regretted that I chose to sign up on this card. It was disappointing that this company could not take care of their clients well. Too much inconsistency on their offers. The 0% APR on purchases was a false advertisement. Look at your statements carefully. They charge interest and can't even explain how was it computed. The company is not accommodating. Customer service both over the phone and online are rude! There is no sincerity for having us in business but clearly this company is only after charging us more fees. Is this company worth recommending? Barclays just lost my business, my family and friends business and more people would hear and know this online and in person.Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
NReviewed By nusapen May 24, 2016
Worst bank I've ever dealt with.
I am the very unhappy holder of a Barclay Arrival MasterCard. The benefits for signing up were attractive. The two points per dollar and the bonus for using the points for travel (even though the bonus was reduced by fifty percent shortly after I started using the card) were a plus as well. In addition, because most of my travel is abroad, the lack of international transaction fees was compelling. All good.
But then I began using the card. My card has been blocked so many times that I have lost count. One time, when I tried to make a purchase in Pittsfield, MA, the town next to where I live, I was told that it was blocked because I was out of area and hadn't notified Barclay! Internationally, it has been a near total disaster. No amount of notification prior to travel has been sufficient. Quite often I have been blocked from using the card for transactions that I have previously made on a regular basis.
Most recently, I called Barclay preemptively before trying to purchase airline tickets on a travel site I have used again and again. The person I spoke with assured me that there would be no problem. The transaction was immediately blocked. I talked to a variety of supervisors trying to make the card work. Each, in turn, assured me that any problem had been corrected. To no avail. Finally I was told that a security supervisor would call me back in 24 to 48 hours if I wanted them to! I didn't.
There's more: it's infuriating to have your card blocked when you are making a legitimate purchase. It's beyond infuriating to have the Barclay representative give inane, impossible reasons for the blocking, often in the sort of tone of voice that one might use with an especially stupid child: "Sir, the problem is that you don't have sufficient credit to make that transaction" — credit $25,000, transaction $50.00. Another: "Sir you need to let us know when you travel outside of the country." I then asked the person if she could not see my travel notification on her screen (or abacus, or whatever they use.) She allowed as how she could. And another: a representative told me yesterday that my card had not been blocked since April. I pointed out that I had five text messages from the fraud department saying that it had been blocked. Her answer, again, condescendingly, was that it didn't appear that way on her screen.
Another issue: Each time I have had to call Barclay from Asia to find out why my card is being blocked, I have to pay for the call. I have frequently had to wait up to forty-five minutes to speak to an agent. The collect call option only works for land lines. Virtually no one in Southeast Asia uses a land line.
Additionally enraging and perplexing is that my friends who I travel with who have Chase, or Capital One, or Bank of America cards never have their cards blocked.
So… I have applied for and been granted another card from a different company.
Avoid Barclay at all cost. They are truly awful.Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
MReviewed By MrGoop May 22, 2016
1 Star because they don't have a ZERO
Terrible customer service. Inflexible and intransigent representatives. They are a foreign bank doing bad business in the United States. I'm stuck with them because they run the rewards program for the Wyndham Hotel Chain (very happy with Wyndham). Working on getting Wyndham to find a bank partner for their reward credit card that us U.S. based and actually values our business.Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
LReviewed By latnit1 Feb 26, 2016
Bad security / Customer service.
1. Worst customer service. They are not trained nor they treat their customer well. They have total disconnect internally. As known to most who had account / card with them.
2. Security team asked me questions on my address and phone number. They had all my data wrong. Looks like some one inside changing the data or they do not have the right source. They say it is all in some one else name so we put your account on hold! until they get the proof. I have been using the phone and in address for more than 4 years!!
3. I was asked to fax the proof, i have faxed it more than 10 times, they say they still did not receive it and then , "Is it, did you try faxing?, then try mailing us".
4. I wasted my time and finally learnt my lesson.
5. I doubt if my data is secure with this so called bank!!, and if i can have any issue fixed with them and i clearly doubt their security team and the banks capabilities.
The way i see it is that they are trying to be a bank. I better get an account / card from a mature bank!
--> Chances of ruining your days/weeks and loosing your identity data/money with them is high the way i see it. i closed my account and happy ever after :)Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
DReviewed By Daniellehernandez Feb 9, 2016
Waiting forever
If you are about to open an account in Barclays don't do it!!!! Every time I have to talk to an advisor it takes up to 2 hours.Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
GReviewed By geoffbainbridge Feb 5, 2016
Barclay customer for 45 years then insulted by customer service
My wife and I have been Barclays customers for over 45 years , never in debt , always in credit . In fact we never had an overdraft . I went into the Kendal Barclays Branch to try and sort a problem out with my daughters account , now I understand they cant talk about the account detail as is not my account . I tried to explain I just want to talk about the way she was being treated , my daughter suffers from bipolar and struggles under stress . I was completely insulted by the muppet who was in the bank hall , he kept going into the back office to consult his master . I was told they would not talk to me at all, whne i said I was going to close our accounts he was still not interested in even finding out what was my problem . When i said my only option was to go to the banking ombudsman he said i should go there . Absolutely unbelievable treatment . Closing my account is to easy form them , I am going to make it my mission in life to make this the most expensive free account they have .Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
JReviewed By joanntim Jan 15, 2016
Is anyone Home?
I'm not a puppy, I've been around for MANY years and I have never dealt with a more disorganized, non transparent bank EVER.
They have held Almost $4400 in an account that they took over from US Airways and since December 8, we have been attempting to speak to management to get this money back and can't get anyone in upper management to expedite or even deal with a person with some degree of intellect. Am not sure the people have any education past high school. We have dealt with approximately 10 people, and have never gotten past a supervisor, who was a glorified phone person. Beyond frustrating. They tell us the account is closed, but still have not released the money. DO NOT use this bank. It's just a ridiculous, pathetic example of banking with Barclay.Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?


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Canada-European Union: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
Technical Summary of the Final Negotiated Outcomes (October 2013)
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- Non-agricultural goods
- Agricultural goods
- Services and investment
- Government procurement
- Intellectual property
- Dispute settlement, institutional and horizontal provisions
- Sustainable development, environment and labour
Non-Agricultural Goods
Tariff elimination
- Full elimination of duties on all non-agricultural goods
European Union
- 98% of EU tariff lines set at 0% at entry into force
- 99% of EU tariffs will be duty-free seven years after entry into force
- Transition periods of three, five or seven years on autos, certain fish and seafood products , and certain agricultural products
- Industrial goods: 99.3% of tariff lines duty-free immediately at entry into force
- 100% of tariff lines will be duty-free seven years after entry into force
- Fish and seafood: 95.5% of tariff lines duty-free immediately at entry into force
- 100% of tariff lines will be duty-free seven years after entry into force
- transitional tariff rate quotas (TRQs) for key Canadian exports (23,000 tonnes of shrimp and 1,000 tonnes of cod)
- 98.4% of tariff lines at 0% at entry into force
- 98.8% of Canadian tariff will be duty-free seven years after entry into force
- Non-agricultural: 99.6% tariff lines duty-free immediately at entry into force (including fish and seafood)
- 100% of tariff lines will be duty-free seven years after entry into force
- Transition periods of three, five or seven years for certain sensitive products
- ships: three and seven years
- autos: three, five and seven years
- certain agriculture goods (see separate agriculture summary): three, five and seven years
Rules of origin
- Favourable rules of origin that follow the Canadian style of drafting
- allows Canadian products to qualify for tariff elimination
- recognizes global value chains
- encourages use of Canadian inputs
- Derogations (origin quotas) for products with a higher proportion of imported inputs
- automobiles (see automobiles section)
- fish/seafood (see fish and seafood section)
- textiles and apparel (origin quotas for textiles and apparel cover Canada's and the EU's top exports)
- high-sugar-containing products (see separate agriculture summary)
- chocolate and confectionery (see separate agriculture summary)
- processed foods (see separate agriculture summary)
- cat and dog food (see separate agriculture summary)
Customs and trade facilitation
- Access to advance rulings on the origin or tariff classification of products
- Automated border procedures where possible
- An impartial and transparent system for addressing complaints about customs rulings and decisions
Industrial goods
European Union
- 99.3% of industrial goods tariff lines at 0% at entry into force
- immediate duty-free sectors include
- forestry products: current duties between 0% to 10% (average of 1.2%), all duty-free on day one
- chemicals and plastics: current duties between 0% to 6.5% (average of 4.9%), all duty-free on day one
- transition period on autos only: three, five and seven years to match Canada's phase-outs
- immediate duty-free sectors include
- 99.6% of industrial goods tariff lines at 0% at entry into force
- transition periods for
- ships: three-year and seven-year phase-outs
- automobiles: 3 three-, five- and seven-year phase-outs (see autos section below for more detail)
- transition periods for
Fish and seafood
European Union
- 95.5% of tariff lines at 0% at entry into force
- immediate tariff elimination includes:
- live lobster – current duties at 8%
- frozen lobster – current duties from 6% and 16%
- frozen scallops – current duties at 8%
- frozen shrimp – current duties at 12%
- cooked and peeled shrimp in retail packages – current duties from a rate of 20%
- fresh or chilled hake – current duties at 15%
- dried and salted cod – current duties at 13%
- frozen herring – current duties at 15%
- frozen mackerel – current duties at 20%
- fresh or chilled halibut – current duties at 15%
- salmon – from rates of up to 15%
- processed salmon – current duties at 5.5%
- snow crab – from rates up to 8%
- fresh, chilled and frozen mussels – from rates up to 20%
- dogfish – from a rate of 6%
- duty-free transitional TRQs with no end-use requirements for:
- processed shrimp (two tariff lines) – 23,000 tonnes – current duties at 20%
- frozen fillets of cod (one tariff line) – 1,000 tonnes – current duties at 7.5%
- immediate tariff elimination includes:
- Favourable rules of origin under which the majority of Canadian fish and seafood products will qualify for preferential treatment
- Derogations for key products processed in Canada that use imported inputs, including:
- prepared or preserved salmon: 3,000 tonnes
- cooked and frozen lobster: 2,000 tonnes
- prepared and preserved sardines: 200 tonnes
- processed shrimp: 5,000 tonnes
- 100% of tariff lines at 0% at entry into force
- Canada has eliminated tariffs on all of its fish/seafood tariff lines in all of its past free trade agreements (FTAs) (except in the Canada-Israel FTA)
- Minimum processing requirements on exports of fish and seafood to the EU to be protected for three years after entry into force of CETA, effectively five+ years of protection from today
- Port access
- Canada commits to provide, in like circumstances, most-favoured nation treatment for EU member state vessels as compared to vessels of any other foreign states
- EU: duties currently range from 3.5% to 22% (averaging 11.2%), transition periods of three, five and seven years to match Canada's offer
- Canada: duties currently at 6.1%, seven-year phase-out on most sensitive lines
- Rules of origin: main rule of origin with a 50% limit on non-originating materials, decreasing to 45% after seven years
- origin quota of 100,000 vehicles under which a more liberal rule of origin applies (70% transaction value or 80% net cost) for non-originating materials
- Canada exported 10,023 cars to the EU in 2012 and an annual average of 8,180 cars between 2007-2012
- a cumulation provision in the case of an EU-U.S. FTA, allowing auto parts originating in the United States to count towards the originating status of a vehicle produced in Canada or the EU following discussions between the parties on the applicable conditions
- One year after the implementation of a provision allowing for cumulation with the United States, the origin quota is eliminated and the main rule of origin includes a 40% limit on non-originating materials.
- origin quota of 100,000 vehicles under which a more liberal rule of origin applies (70% transaction value or 80% net cost) for non-originating materials
- Standards:
- annex on motor vehicle regulations that focuses on strengthening cooperation and the sharing of information between the EU and Canada
- Canada agreed to the inclusion of this annex only on the basis that it does not compromise safety or North American integration of the auto manufacturing market
- one of the cooperation elements in the annex is the listing of 17 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) standards that, by the Agreement's coming into force, Canada will have incorporated, in whole or in part, as an allowable alternative within its standards
- Canada already incorporates 14 of these UNECE standards within its regulatory regime.
- By the time the Agreement comes into effect, three additional standards will have been incorporated, in whole or in part, as an additional alternative within Canadian regulations. These standards relate to motorcycle controls and displays, motorcycle mirrors, and electronic stability control for passenger cars.
- The relevant parts of these UNECE standards should provide for an equivalent level of safety and will, therefore, have no negative implications on the safety of vehicles in Canada.
- parties agreed on a work program to discuss future regulatory cooperation
- On entry into force, elimination of all existing tariffs, currently up to 10%
- Created a specific Bilateral Dialogue on Forest Products to facilitate regular engagement between Canadian and EU forestry experts
- this will enhance Canada's ability to influence the development of EU measures
- the objective is to minimize potential impacts of EU measures on Canada's exports and help ensure continued access for Canadian forest products to the EU
Wine and spirits
- Incorporated existing Canada-EU Wine and Spirits Agreement
- Protected key practices:
- Quebec bottling requirements for retail sale, private outlets in Ontario and B.C., and winery sales across Canada
- As in other FTAs, removal of the federal blending requirement for imported distilled spirits
- Obligation not to violate competition laws for "out of province" activities
- Cost of service differential
- in addition to incorporation of existing audit requirement, obligation not to impose cost of service on a value basis (specific rates based on volume still permitted)
National treatment and market access (rules)
- National treatment obligation to ensure goods are not subject to discriminatory treatment by the other party
- Obligation to ensure fees charged on importation or exportation must be commensurate with cost of services rendered
- General prohibition on import/export restrictions
- agreed to allow EU to maintain its entry price system on some fruits and vegetables in return for Canada maintaining its right to use special safeguards on over-quota supply managed goods
- Institutional provisions:
- consultations and Committee on Trade in Goods and Rules of Origin to resolve trade irritants
- Prohibition of duty drawback on bilateral trade
- Log export controls
- finalization of details to be confirmed, but EU has offered carve-out in text for Canadian system of log export controls
Subsidies and trade remedies
- Reaffirms WTO rights and obligations for trade remedies and subsidies
- Additional transparency and consultation mechanisms for subsidies to enable parties to exchange information and to discuss subsidy programs that may be adversely affecting their interests
- Export subsidies: bilateral prohibition of agriculture export subsidies conditional on tariff elimination
- Agricultural subsidies: consultative mechanism on all forms of government support for agriculture products
Regulatory cooperation
- First regulatory cooperation chapter in any Canadian FTA
- Creates a formal mechanism that will facilitate joint initiatives between Canadian and EU regulatory authorities
- includes comparing data collection and analysis practices, reviewing lessons learned, conducting risk and regulatory impact assessments
- Facilitates earlier access to regulatory development processes
- to reduce differences in approach in order to achieve more compatible measures and fewer trade barriers
- Promote cooperation related to animal welfare
Technical barriers to trade
- Incorporates and builds on key provisions in the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
- Establishes procedures through which Canada and the EU can request that each other's technical regulations be considered as equivalent
- Allows interested persons in either Canada or the EU to participate in public processes for the development of technical regulations
- Committee where trade irritants can be raised as they arise so Canada and the EU can work on resolving them as soon as possible
Conformity assessment
- A protocol will provide for the acceptance by Canada and the EU of test results and product certification by recognized bodies in the other party.
- test and certification bodies would seek accreditation from a body in the other party
- once accreditation bodies establish arrangements, testing and certification bodies could elect to be recognized in certain areas through one mutually accepted accreditation
- This will reduce testing and certification costs and associated marketing delays for manufacturers.
- While the text of protocol is stable, the issue of scope and coverage continues to be discussed. Canada has sought from the beginning of negotiations an ambitious scope that would, at a minimum, include coverage of construction products, medical devices, machinery (including equipment for use in explosive atmospheres and noise emissions of outdoor equipment), measuring instruments, and those sectors covered under the 1998 Canada-EU mutual recognition agreement (electrical and electronic equipment, radio and telecommunications equipment, and boats). Canada is also seeking coverage of gas appliances, personal protective devices, toys, pressure equipment, boilers, marine equipment and other sectors (to be confirmed).
Agricultural Goods
European Union
- 93.6% of agricultural tariff lines set at 0% at entry into force
- Tariffs to be eliminated immediately
- maple syrup: current duty 8%
- fresh and frozen fruits, such as
- cherries: EU seasonal duties reaching as high as 12%
- fresh apples: EU seasonal duties reaching as high as 9%
- frozen blueberries: 3.2%-14.4%, but currently suspended
- processed fruits and vegetables, such as
- frozen potato products, including french fries: current duties 14.4%-17.6%
- sweetened, dried cranberries: current duty 17.6%
- processed products, such as
- cat and dog food: current duties up to $1,218/tonne
- miscellaneous food preparations: current duties start at 12.8%
- oils, including canola oil: current duties 3.2%-9.6%
- processed pulses and grains, which include baked goods, pulse flour, meal and powder (EU tariffs start at 7.7 percent)
- other products, such as mushrooms, potatoes, peas, cranberries, raspberries and strawberries, as well as processed products such as jams, jellies and juices, fruit and nut bars, yeasts, mixed seasonings and condiments, sugar confectionery, chocolates and mixes and doughs
- Transition period of seven years for grains
- current duties of up to $190/tonne for durum and up to $122/tonne for high-quality common wheat (currently both applied at 0%, but not bound)
- current duties up to $122/tonne for low- to medium-quality common wheat
- creation of a duty-free low- to medium-quality transitional quota of 100,000 tonnes, incorporating Canada's existing 38,853-tonne share of the EU's global quota
- current duties up to $120/tonne for rye and barley, $114/tonne for oats
- Immediate duty-free in-quota access for 8,000 tonnes of sweet corn
- Duty-free, quota-free access to EU dairy market
- Beef and veal market access
- duty-free in-quota access secured for total of 50,000 tonnes carcass weight, including the incorporation of Canada's share of the hormone-free quota (3,200 tonnes product weight or 4,160 tonnes carcass weight)
- includes 70% (or 35,000 tonnes carcass weight) for fresh, chilled product
- includes 15,000 tonnes carcass weight for frozen product
- in addition, immediate duty-free in-quota access for Canadian product shipped under the existing high-quality beef quota (11,500 tonnes product weight or 14,950 tonnes carcass weight, but administered on a product-weight basis): current in-quota duty 20%
- continued access to the EU's existing beef quotas
- duty-free immediate treatment of all processed beef tariff lines (Chapter 16)
- duty-free in-quota access secured for total of 50,000 tonnes carcass weight, including the incorporation of Canada's share of the hormone-free quota (3,200 tonnes product weight or 4,160 tonnes carcass weight)
- Bison market access
- immediate duty-free in-quota access secured for 3,000 tonnes carcass weight of Canadian bison
- Pork market access
- immediate duty-free in-quota access secured for 81,011 tonnes carcass weight of Canadian pork, including the incorporation of Canada's country-specific quota (4,624 tonnes product weight or 6,011 tonnes carcass weight)
- available for fresh, chilled and frozen product
- duty-free immediate treatment for pig fat; salted, dried, smoked and cured boneless pork; and all other processed pork tariff lines in Chapter 16, such as sausages
Rules of origin
- The majority of Canadian agricultural goods will meet the main product-specific rule of origin, thus qualifying for duty-free treatment
- Derogations (which provide more liberal rules of origin than the general rules of origin) for products with a higher proportion of imported inputs:
- products with high sugar content (such as flavoured drink mixes, iced-tea mixes, and instant hot chocolate and coffee), for an initial volume of 30,000 tonnes, with a conditional growth mechanism to permit an increase up to 51,840 tonnes over 15 years
- chocolate and sugar confectionery (such as bubble gum, sugar candies, chocolate preparations), for 10,000 tonnes
- processed foods (such as baked products, breakfast cereals, mixes and doughs, rice, pasta, and certain jellies), for 35,000 tonnes
- dog and cat food, for 60,000 tonnes
- predetermined volumes are all approximately three times current trade
- volumes will be reviewed every five years when fill rates are above 60%
- 92.0% of agriculture tariff lines set at 0% at entry into force
- 7.1% of lines excluded
- Supply-managed products
- no reduction in over-quota tariffs
- poultry and eggs are excluded
- no tariff rate quotas (TRQs) other than cheese
- Total cheese TRQ for the EU will comprise:
- 16,800 tonnes of cheese
- 16,000 tonnes new market access, and Canada will fulfil our existing-but-not-yet-implemented obligation to reallocate to the EU 800 tonnes from the existing WTO TRQ to address new member state accession to the EU
- 1,700 tonnes for industrial-use cheese
- 16,800 tonnes of cheese
- Total cheese TRQ for the EU will comprise:
- phase-out of the milk protein substances tariff (United States already has tariff-free access into Canada)
- no additional access provided for any other Canadian supply-managed products
- the federal government will monitor impact and, if needed, provide compensation should a negative impact be observed
- the federal government will also explore other ways of addressing circumvention of import-control measures
- Agreed text is anchored on the principle of cooperation, in particular encouraging and building on cooperation between regulators.
- The text also notes the importance of promoting efficient science-based approval processes, cooperating on low-level presence, and minimizing adverse trade impacts of regulatory practices.
- With respect to the approval of canola traits, Canada leveraged the CETA negotiations to get agreement with the EU on a parallel letter to demonstrate the EU's commitment to ensuring the efficient processing of canola applications and the expeditious movement of these proposals through the EU approval process.
Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
- Agreed to reaffirm and build upon WTO sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) commitments
- SPS provisions subject to dispute settlement
- Incorporates and updates the existing Canada-EU Veterinary Agreement
- Builds on the Veterinary Agreement to establish a framework for cooperation on the full scope of animal-health, plant-health and food-safety provisions
- Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Joint Management Committee of experts to discuss issues before they become problems, as well as facilitate discussions to resolve issues impeding trade
- Canada and the EU agreed to proactively determine equivalency of each other's inspection and certification systems
- With respect to a number of key red meat SPS issues, Canada achieved a parallel exchange of letters
- The key objective for Canada is to ensure that commitments are made to facilitate trade in red meats, specifically by advancing the proposal for the acceptance of recycled hot water as a carcass-decontamination technique in the EU (lactic acid was approved in Feb. 2013), and by both Canada and the EU ensuring that both sides are committed to conducting the respective steps toward finalizing the equivalence determination on meat and meat products within a year
Services and Investment
- Recognition of governments' right to regulate and right to sovereign control over the development of natural resources
- Health care, public education, other social services excluded
- Culture excluded (see dispute settlement and institutional provisions for details)
- Exclusions to allow for preferential treatment of Aboriginal peoples and minority groups
- Transparency and predictability of domestic regulatory regimes
- Binding of future autonomous liberalization (i.e. the "ratchet"—whenever a government liberalizes, that level of liberalization is locked in)
- Most-favoured nation (MFN) treatment
European Union
- Canada's services exports to the EU worth $14.5 billion (2012)
- Canadian direct investment in the EU totalled $172.5 billion (2011)
- Best access ever provided to any FTA partner
- Broad coverage across all sectors
- Important sectors and services activities of export interest to Canada
- research and development
- mining
- services related to energy
- technical testing and analysis services
- environmental services
- computer and information technology
- professional services, including
- legal
- architectural
- engineering
- urban planning
- EU's services exported to Canada valued at $16.8 billion (2012)
- EU's foreign direct investment in Canada totalled $160.7 (2011)
- New market access provided for:
- commercial dredging
- repositioning of empty containers
- uranium investment less restrictive: exempted from requirement of first finding a Canadian partner
- but Investment Canada Act (ICA) still applies
- national-security considerations protected
- telecommunications reservation moved from Annex II to Annex I
- no change to current rules; locks in future liberalization
- Provinces and territories bound to regulatory status quo and provided the benefits of autonomous liberalization in a number of sectors (architectural, engineering, foreign legal consultancy, urban planning, tourism, business services)
- Provincial and territorial non-conforming measures listed, more transparent; first time in an FTA
- Investment Canada Actprotected
- exempted from dispute settlement
- threshold will be raised to $1.5 billion for EU investors
- other FTA partners will benefit as a result of MFN commitments in those FTAs
- EU includes a mirror reservation, ratcheted to Canada's reservation
Labour mobility
Licensing and qualification requirements and procedures (including mutual recognition of professional qualifications)
- First time that substantive and binding provisions on licensing and qualification, as well as the mutual recognition of professional qualifications have been included in any of Canada's free trade agreements
- Process of recognizing foreign qualifications streamlined
- provides a detailed framework so that regulators or professional organizations may negotiate mutual-recognition agreements
- Profession associations (e.g. architecture) in Canada and the EU have already engaged in discussions on mutual-recognition agreements
- Other professions (engineers, foresters) have expressed interest in future engagement
Temporary entry
- EU commitments are the most ambitious ever in a free trade agreement
- Canada's offer is in line with the level of ambition taken by the EU
- Includes coverage of
- intra-corporate transferees
- investors and business visitors for investment purposes
- contract service suppliers and independent professionals (including a broad coverage of professionals, and limited coverage of technologists) with contract length of 12 months or less
- short-term business visitors including after-sales and after-lease services
- Commitments for contract service suppliers and independent professionals have been taken on a reciprocal basis, on a sector and member-state basis
- Minimum stay generally applies equally to both Canada and the EU
- intra-corporate transferees (senior personnel and specialists): lesser of 3 years or length of contract
- contract service suppliers, independent professionals, intra-corporate transferees (graduate trainees) and investors: lesser of one year or length of contract
- short-term business visitors (including for investment purposes): 90 days within any six-month period.
- Spouses of intra-corporate transferees, contract service suppliers and independent professionals
- EU agrees to bind outcome of Intra-Community Transfer directive
- as the EU's Intra-Community Transfer directive is likely to be less ambitious than Canada's proposed approach for spouses, Canada will likely offer to reciprocate any eventual access from the EU.
Financial services
- Main elements of the Financial Services chapter build on Canada's existing model for trade in financial services
- A robust prudential exception that will protect reasonable measures taken for prudential reasons
- Prudential guidelines setting out a process and principles clarifying application of the prudential carve-out
- the guidelines provide clarity on the prudential carve-out and set out a process to limit frivolous claims
- Scope of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS): investors in the financial sector will now have recourse for breach of national treatment, most-favoured nation and treatment of investors in addition to expropriation and limits on transfers
- The market-access offers, for the most part, will bind the existing financial-sector regulatory framework
Investment protection rules
- Strong rules that take into consideration lessons learned from past FTAs and foreign investment promotion and protection agreements
- Commitments to treat investors from Canada and the EU fairly and equitably and in non-discriminatory manner
- Provisions on expropriation, including indirect expropriation
- annex clarifies that non-discriminatory, good-faith measures to protect health, safety and the environment do not constitute indirect expropriation
- Robust and innovative provision on minimum standard of treatment
- new format for article but substantively the same as NAFTA (that is, substantively the same as the customary international-law minimum standard of treatment)
- Investment-protection rules subject to ISDS on only a post-establishment basis
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS)
- Clear and detailed rules of procedure to promote the efficient resolution of investor-state disputes
- Enhanced consultations and new mediation provisions encourage early settlement of disputes without recourse to arbitration
- Transparent ISDS process, making submissions to the arbitral panel public and generally opening hearings to anyone interested
- Allows amicus curiae interventions (non-disputing individuals and organisations may seek leave to submit briefs to the arbitral panel)
- Provisions to allow for early dismissal of frivolous and stale claims to ensure that the process will not be abused
- Standing provision adjusted for the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of other States (the "ICSID Convention")
- allows an investor to bring a claim against the host state for a breach of obligation and for damages arising from that breach
- Canada plans to become a party to the ICSID Convention, which allows for locally established, foreign-owned companies to bring a claim.
- Accordingly, when the ICSID Convention arbitral rules apply, that foreign-owned company may initiate a claim
- does not change the result of Canada's current standing approach
- To pursue an ISDS claim, an investor must file a waiver abandoning any other parallel claim it may have seeking damages related to the same measure(s).
- Future claims are also prohibited when the ISDS claim is dismissed on its merits.
- If the ISDS claim is dismissed in its early stages, such as on procedural or jurisdictional grounds, then an investor may pursue its claim elsewhere.
- If the ISDS claim is withdrawn within 12 months, the investor may pursue its claim elsewhere
- An ISDS tribunal cannot order the repeal of the host state's measure.
- It may order an award, separately or in combination, for damages or restitution of property, as well as costs.
- When calculating a damages award, a tribunal must consider, amongst other factors, whether a measure has been voluntarily repealed or modified.
- This may serve to discount the amount of damages awarded to the investor
- Canada and the EU may adopt interpretations of a provision in the investment chapter that are binding on investor-state dispute-settlement arbitration tribunals.
- Such interpretations can be used to clarify the parties' intent when the obligations were negotiated.
Monopolies and state enterprises (MSEs)
- Disciplines to ensure monopolies and state enterprises operate in a non-discriminatory manner and in accordance with commercial considerations
- MSEs with public-service obligations will continue to have flexibility to serve public interests
- Nothing in the chapter prevents parties from designating or maintaining a monopoly or state enterprise
- Disciplines on entities with special rights and privileges
- But clarity that the granting of a licence to a limited number of enterprises in allocating a scarce resource through objective, proportional and non-discriminatory criteria is not in and of itself a special right or privilege.
- Non-discrimination and commercial-consideration obligations do not apply to measures of a covered entity where a national treatment or MFN reservation have been taken
- This includes entities engaged in buying and selling of energy.
- The disciplines of the MSE chapter do not apply to procurement by a party for goods and services purchased for governmental purposes and not with a view to commercial resale or with a view to use in the supply of goods and services for commercial sale
- These procurements are excluded whether or not it is "covered procurement" as defined in the government-procurement chapter.
Government Procurement
- Maintained ability to give preferences to domestic companies
- when using grants, loans or fiscal incentives
- for procurements below thresholds value
- for excluded procurement
- Maintained ability to specify technical considerations, including relevant experience
- Maintained ability to include social and environmental criteria in contract requirements
- Maintained ability to determine the form of procurement (open or limited) or negotiate with potential suppliers based on criteria that are the same as the WTO-Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) and similar to those of the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT)
- Maintained ability to shorten the deadlines to submit a bid when certain conditions are met (e.g. pre-posting of a notice of planned procurement no more than 12 months in advance, accepting tenders by electronic means, etc.)
- Maintained broad exception for
- national security and measures necessary to protect public morals, order or safety
- human, animal or plant life or health
- intellectual property
- measures relating to goods or services of persons with disabilities, philanthropic institution or prison labour
- Aboriginal businesses
European Union
- Provided preferential access to EU $2.7-trillion government-procurement market
- The most comprehensive and favourable market access offered by the EU to any member of the G-20
- Broad coverage for goods and services to be supplied either directly to government entities or through EU suppliers engaged in procurement contracts with:
- the three main EU-level institutions (European Commission, European Parliament and European Council)
- 28 EU member-state governments
- thousands of regional and local government entities within the EU
- large array of entities operating in the utilities sector.
- Thresholds (SDR = special drawing rights; 1 SDR = 1 euro = $1.577 CDN for 2012-2013)
- goods and services
- European entities and central member-state government entities: 130,000 SDR/euros
- sub-central entities (regional and local entities and bodies governed by public law, including hospitals, schools, universities and social services): 200,000 SDR/euros
- other sub-central entities: 355,000 SDR/euros
- utilities sector: 400,000 SDR/euros
- construction services
- all entities: 5 million SDR/euros
- all thresholds are identical to those of EU domestic directive providing the same access to Canada as offered among EU member states within the EU's internal market
- one exception: 355,000 SDR/euros for other sub-central entities (to reciprocate Canada's threshold for sub-central entities)
- goods and services
- Exclusions for:
- ports and airports
- broadcasting
- postal sector
- shipbuilding and maintenance by utilities, bodies governed by public law and local authorities
- No exclusion for:
- regional economic development (although Canada has maintained this exclusion)
- cohesion fund
- pre-contractual remedies for the first 10 years—this allows suppliers to stop the award of a contract before it is signed (if Canadian provinces and territories do not make available similar remedies under their domestic-review regimes, Canada will lose access to the pre-contractual remedies)
- More comprehensive coverage than Canada for important areas such as:
- energy
- bodies governed by public law
- cultural industries
- public transit
- Broad coverage at federal, provincial and municipal levels
- Most comprehensive and favourable market access offered by Canada under any of its FTAs
- Thresholds for provinces and territories (1 SDR = $1.575 CDN for 2012-2013)
- high-value contracts and thresholds generally aligned with the Canada-U.S. Procurement Agreement / WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) (355,000 SDR)
- significantly higher thresholds than the Agreement on Internal Trade (which range from $25,000 for goods and services to $250,000 for construction services)
- Thresholds for procurement of goods and services
- provinces and territories: 200,000 SDR ($315,000) for government entities including municipalities, academia, school boards and hospitals (MASH)
- federal government: 130,000 SDR ($205,000)
- other government entities (arms-length and crown entities): 355,000 SDR ($560,000) (federal and provincial and territorial governments)
- utilities sector: 400,000 SDR ($630,000) (all governments)
- construction services (all governments)
- 5 million SDR ($7.8 million) for all entities
- Coverage of 75-80 percent of procurement by major energy entities across Canada, with commitments by all provinces and territories with major energy-production and distribution capacity
- Coverage of mass transit by all provinces and territories; Quebec and Ontario to retain a 25 percent Canadian value for the procurement of public-transit vehicles (rolling stock) with Quebec able to require that final assembly be in Canada within its 25 percent
- Commitment to create single point of electronic access within five years from entry into force
- will be beneficial to Canadian and EU companies and increase transparency in procurement process
- Procurements in the following areas are excluded from coverage
- health care and other public services
- set-asides for Aboriginal businesses
- regional economic development exclusion for Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Yukon:
- for procurement contracts of $1 million or less or as a maximum value within a larger procurement contract and intended to support small firms or employment opportunities in non-urban areas and
- no more than 10 times per province or territory per year
- not available for procurement funded by the federal government
- agricultural goods that are part of food programs
- works of art and cultural industries in Quebec (consistent with Quebec's exclusion in the GPA) and for all municipalities, school boards and academic institutions in all other provinces and territories
- procurement for co-production and broadcasting time across Canada (all jurisdictions)
- research and development
- public-private partnerships/works concessions for services and the utilities sector
- shipbuilding and repair (federal and British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia)
- sensitive goods when procured by security-mandated entities, such as police forces and any related services for those excluded goods
- all major ports and airports (Canadian airport authorities and Canada Port Authorities)
- consulting services regarding matters of a confidential nature below 355,000 SDR ($560,000)
- goods or services purchased for representational or promotional purposes by Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Saskatchewan
- any in-house procurement or procurement made on behalf of non-covered entities
Intellectual Property
Data protection
- Canada rejected the EU request to provide 10 years of data protection
- Canada agreed to lock in the current Canadian practice of providing eight years of market exclusivity
- current regulations provide a six year "no-filing" period during which no applications for generic drugs are accepted for regulatory consideration and a two-year "no-marketing" period during which generics can progress toward market readiness but cannot be sold
Patent linkage / right of appeal
- Canada agreed to a general commitment to ensure that litigants are afforded effective rights of appeal, which gives scope for Canada to end the practice of dual litigation.
- ensures all litigants have equal appeal rights
- will bring improvements to Canada's pharmaceutical intellectual property regime by taking inefficiencies out of the system
- litigation in this area is currently one of the largest draws on the federal court system
- guarantee of an effective appeal for brands and more certainty for generics
- Background:
- Both generic and brand-name drug manufacturers take issue with the status quo regarding the opportunities for litigation and appeal in Canada.
- Brand-name manufacturers do not have an effective right of appeal under the patent-linkage system.
- Generic manufacturers note that a successful result under patent-linkage litigation is no guarantee of success in the case of subsequent litigation under the Patent Act.
Additional protection
- Canada agreed to provide additional (sui generis) protection for pharmaceutical products protected by eligible patents in Canada
- The period of protection will be calculated using reference points including the filing of the application for the patent and the first authorization to place the product on the Canadian market.
- The period of protection offered by Canada will never exceed a fixed cap of two years.
- The cap on the period of protection in the EU remains higher, at five years.
- Exceptions have been negotiated to allow for Canadian-made generic medicines to be exported during the period of additional protection.
- This will temper the impact on the generic industry and its competitiveness in the important United States market.
- No retroactivity: pharmaceutical products that are already approved and on the Canadian market would not receive additional protection
- Any cost impacts not likely to be felt until 2023*.
- *using eight as an estimate of the average number of years that a pharmaceutical product would be on the market before becoming eligible for the type of additional protection negotiated in CETA, and assuming that CETA is ratified in 2015
- Should concessions to the EU in this area generate cost impacts on provincial and territorial governments, the federal government is prepared to address these incremental cost impacts.
- The CETA result on copyright reflects Canada's system as updated by the 2012 Copyright Modernization Act, which brought Canada into compliance with the two 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization treaties (Copyright, and Performances and Phonograms).
- Reiterates existing aspects of Canada's copyright regime, including term of protection, broadcasting, protection of technological measures (technology designed to protect copyrighted material), protection of rights management information, and liability of intermediary (e.g. Internet) service providers
Trademarks and designs
- Canada did not take on specific commitments in this area. The CETA result on trademarks and designs reflects a best endeavours commitment to make all reasonable efforts to comply with international agreements and standards to encourage more effective trademark and industrial design procedures.
- With regard to the above, CETA specifically mentions the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks, the Protocol Related to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, and the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs.
Geographical indications (GIs)
- Canada currently recognizes a number of EU wines and spirit geographical indications (GI), such as Cognac and Bordeaux.
- Agreed to varying ways of addressing EU requests regarding 179 terms covering foods and beer
- Preserved space for Canadian trademark holders and for users of commonly used English and French names for food products
- Offer protection for GIs without prejudicing the validity of existing Canadian trademarks
- The economic impact will be contained in Canada.
- Enforcement of GIs in the Canadian market remains a private matter to be argued before the courts.
- Some EU GIs were protected but with the caveat that they not impact the ability of producers to use specified English- and French-language terms that are commonly employed in Canada.
- The following terms continue to be free for use in the Canadian market, in both official languages, regardless of product origin: Valencia orange, Black Forest ham, Tiroler bacon, Parmesan, Bavarian beer, Munich beer.
- For example, Canadian producers would be able to use English and French but not the German language for Black Forest ham (Schwarzwaelder Schinken).
- Limited GI rights provided to EU on: Asiago, feta, fontina, Gorgonzola and Munster
- won't affect ability of current users of these names in Canada to continue use
- future users will be able to use the names only when accompanied by expressions such as "kind," "type," style," "imitation" or the like
- Canada preserves the ability to use the customary name of a plant variety or an animal breed.
- Producers can, for example, sell the kalamata variety of olive and use the variety name in their packaging.
- Canada maintains ability to use components of multi-part terms, for example:
- "Brie de Meaux" will be protected, but the term "brie" can be used on its own.
- "Gouda Holland" will be protected, but the term "Gouda" can be used on its own.
- "Edam Holland" will be protected, but the term "Edam" can be used on its own.
- "Mortadella Bologna" will be protected, but either "Mortadella" or "bologna" can be used separately.
- Canada did not agree to protect the French term "noix de Grenoble" (walnut, in English), meaning this term remains free for use in Canada.
- Budweiser beer : Canada will not protect the GI "Budejovicke," which prevents any potential conflict with the Budweiser trademark.
- Consultations were conducted with stakeholders, including meetings with individual trademark holders.
Plants and plant protection products
- Reflects Canadian regime
- provides certainty for data protection for plant protection products
- Commits both sides to co-operate to promote and reinforce the protection of plant varieties based on the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
- Canada and the EU already work together under UPOV.
- CETA will not change the "farmers' privilege" to save and replant seeds of a protected variety on their own land under the federal Plant Breeders' Rights' Act.
- Commitment to ensure simple, fair, equitable and cost-effective enforcement of intellectual property rights
- Includes provisions on civil remedies and border enforcement in line with Canada's existing regime and federal Bill C-56, Combating Counterfeit Products Act
- Commitments concerning the handling of geographical indications at the border: to be confirmed
- This is not expected to interrupt trade at the border.
Dispute Settlement, Institutional and Horizontal Provisions
Dispute settlement
- Most efficient and innovative process for state-to-state dispute settlement of any of Canada's free trade agreements (FTAs)
- Includes robust provisions on voluntary mediation
- encourages and enables a more expedited resolution of CETA disputes
- Builds on lessons learned from past experience
- Significantly shorter than WTO dispute resolution process
- Includes a single short process to determine whether a party has complied with a decision
- Includes a process for ensuring panel composition even in the absence of an agreed roster to prevent a party from blocking a dispute by not allowing a roster to be developed
- Efficient three-person panels
- Specialized rosters and dispute settlement provisions for certain sectors, including:
- financial services
- taxation
- labour
- environment
- Exceptions for measures with respect to cultural industries are included in various chapters to maintain Canada's flexibility to protect and promote cultural industries, policies and programs
- robust and innovative new approach, which provides protection as strong as, if not stronger than, previous FTAs
- stakeholders from a range of cultural sectors (books, movies, television, music, performing and visual arts, among other areas) support the new, modernized format of the cultural industries exception
- preamble recognizes the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
- exceptions for measures with respect to cultural industries will be included in the following areas:
- cross-border trade in services
- domestic regulation
- investment
- national treatment and market access for goods
- government procurement
- subsidies
- taxation
- A taxation article ensures protection for existing taxation measures as well as broad exceptions to ensure the ability of governments to implement efficient tax policies that are consistent with their overall social and economic objectives.
- A general exception for certain measures, including
- those necessary to protect human, animal, or plant life or health, or relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources
- general exception is in line with those included in previous FTAs
- An exception for measures taken to protect national security
- The Agreement includes an overall trade committee, the CETA Trade Committee
- The committee oversees and facilitates the implementation and application of the Agreement and supervises the work of the various CETA committees, sub-committees and dialogues.
- Committees, subcommittees and dialogues under the Trade Committee pertain to:
- goods (trade in goods, tariffs, technical barriers to trade, rules of origin, origin procedures, customs and trade facilitation, sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, agriculture, among other areas)
- services and investment (mutual recognition of professional qualifications, financial services, e-commerce, temporary entry, among other areas)
- sustainable development (environment and labour)
- regulatory cooperation
- forestry products
- government procurement
- raw materials
- biotechnology market access
- The scope of committee and subcommittees' mandates is generally limited to issues falling within the scope of the chapter.
- e.g. the financial services sub-committee will deal with issues covering new financial services regulations and other issues within the financial services area
- Representatives of provinces and territories will have the opportunity to participate as members of the Canadian delegation in committees that deal with issues falling at least partially under provincial or territorial jurisdiction. This includes committees, sub-committees and dialogues, as established for:
- mutual recognition of professional qualifications
- labour
- wines and spirits
- technical barriers to trade
- regulatory cooperation
- cross-border trade in services
- investment
- government procurement
- environment
- sustainable development
- forestry products
- raw materials
- biotechnology market access
- horizontal provisions
- Extent of obligations provision as included in NAFTA and subsequent FTAs
- recognizes that each party is responsible for ensuring the observance of obligations and commitments in the Agreement at all levels of government
- Transparency provisions
- ensures that each party has access to information, such as laws or regulations, that can affect the operation of the Agreement
- Provision describing the process of accession of new EU member states
- when a new member state joins the EU, the state becomes a party to CETA and must comply with all CETA obligations
- Termination and withdrawal provisions
- allows any party to terminate or withdraw from the Agreement with six months notice
- Relation to provisions in other agreements
- terminates or amends existing agreements that will become redundant or will need to be modified following the entry into force of CETA
- e.g. termination of existing FIPAs with member states where required by EU law, modification and incorporation of the Wine and Spirits Agreement
- Clarification that water in its natural state is not a good or product, so is not subject to CETA
- Sets out a number of aspirational (non-binding) statements for CETA, including statements
- reaffirming the parties' right to regulate (in a manner consistent with the Agreement)
- affirming and recognizing the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
- recognizing the economic importance of innovation
Sustainable Development, Environment and Labour
- First time Canada has a chapter on sustainable development in an FTA
- First time Canada includes chapters with substantive provisions on labour and environment in an FTA
- Provisions designed to ensure that any increased economic activity as a result of the FTA does not occur at the expense of environmental and labour protection
- All provinces and territories have agreed to immediate coverage under the sustainable-development, environment and labour provisions for the first time
- full coverage has not been achieved in previous FTAs
- under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (parallel agreement to NAFTA), only three provinces have agreed to be bound (Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec)
- under the Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia, Jordan and Panama environment agreements, no provinces and territories have agreed to be bound
- full coverage has not been achieved in previous FTAs
Trade and Sustainable Development Chapter
- Sets out commitments relating to sustainable development and enhanced coordination of environment, labour and trade policies by:
- encouraging businesses to adopt practices that promote economic, social and environmental objectives
- recognizing the benefits of eco-labeling and setting environmental-performance goals and standards
- committing to review, monitor and assess the impact that implementation of the Agreement has on sustainable development in Canada and the EU
- creating a forum to allow our civil-society organizations to discuss the sustainable-development aspects of trade relations between Canada and the EU
- Creates a committee of high-level representatives to oversee the implementation of the Trade and Sustainable Development, Trade and Environment, and Trade and Labour chapters
- representatives of provinces and territories, as members of the Canadian delegation, will have the opportunity to participate in committee discussions—including discussions that deal with issues falling at least partially under provincial or territorial jurisdiction,
Trade and Environment Chapter
- Contains provisions similar to those found in Canada's existing parallel environment agreements, including the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
- Commitments include:
- seeking to maintain high levels of environmental protection
- effectively enforcing domestic environmental laws
- not derogating from environmental laws to attract trade or investment
- providing domestic sanctions or remedies for violations of environmental laws
- promoting accountability and responsibility
- Robust definition of environmental law covers all laws that have as their purpose the protection of the environment, including environmental laws related to the management of natural resources
- Provisions related to sustainable trade in forest and fisheries products
- Provisions for cooperation on topics of mutual interest, including promotion of trade and investment in environmental goods and services
- Dispute resolution covers all obligations in the Chapter.
- is based on a consultative and cooperative approach
- if needed, consultation is followed by a review by a panel of experts that would issue a non-binding report
- no penalties or trade sanctions in cases of non-compliance
- Environmental considerations were also included in other areas of CETA, including:
- references to environment and sustainable development in the preamble
- reference to environment was maintained in the general exception, which recognizes a party's right to regulate in the public interest, including measures to protect the environment (see dispute settlement and institutional chapter for more information)
Trade and Labour Chapter
- Provisions of the labour chapter are similar to those in recent Labour Cooperation Agreements (LCAs) with Peru, Colombia, Jordan, Panama and Honduras
- level of obligations is higher than in previous LCAs, as it includes a commitment to effectively implement the fundamental International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions that each party has ratified respectively: to be confirmed
- Includes commitments to ensure that national labour laws and policies in Canada and the EU respect the International Labour Organization's (ILO) 1998 Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work
- Includes a non-derogation clause that prevents either party from weakening its labour laws and lowering its labour standards in order to facilitate trade or encourage investment
- Establishes civil-society advisory groups
- Institutional structures set up to implement and monitor compliance with the established commitments
- to provide views and advice regarding labour issues
- creates a mechanism through which the public can raise concerns about labour issues related to the chapter
- provinces and territories will be covered automatically by all of the provisions of the CETA
- Dispute-settlement provisions up to the level of a review panel, which can issue recommendations
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