Canada-Europe free trade agreement could be final in 6 months
That's a major one. I never heard before now that it could be ready so fast.
http://www.4-traders.com/news/Canada...ins--14289365/
Canada-EU Free Trade Seen Finalized Within 6 Months - Trade Mins
04/23/2012 | 12:16pm
(Recasts lead, updates throughout with quotes.)
--75% of neogiations concluded
--Officials still discussing supply management, rules of origin issues
--Fuel quality directive being discussed on a separate track
By Nirmala Menon
Of Dow Jones Newswires
Free trade negotiations between Canada and the European Union are expected to be finalized within six months, the Canadian and Danish trade ministers said Monday.
Pia Olsen Dyhr, Denmark's trade and investment minister, said 75% of negotiations have been completed and the balance is "coming very soon."
"We are actually at the end game," Olsen Dyhr said at a joint news conference with Canadian trade minister Ed Fast after a meeting in Ottawa. "My perspective would be that within half a year we (would) have finalized this agreement."
"That's our hope," added Fast, who said Canada is hoping for "the most comprehensive and ambitious" trade agreement it's every signed.
The EU is negotiating several trade agreements around the world and "I see this as actually the one moving forward and being in a very positive stream," Olsen Dyhr said.
She said discussions about rules of origin which identify the origin of a product are ongoing. These rules are stricter in Europe than in Canada. Officials are also discussing Canada's supply management system, which protects poultry and dairy farmers, she said.
Fast said Canada won't sign an agreement "unless it's in the best interest of Canadians."
Olsen Dyhr said the EU's proposed fuel quality directive is being discussed on a separate track and has "nothing to do" with negotiations for the trade pact.
"The boastful seeks the company of parasites." (Spinoza)
I agree with the idea, but imagine the mess with current NAFTA partners...
"The boastful seeks the company of parasites." (Spinoza)
Not to mention you better find a way to keep the sneaky Euros from trying to back door protectionism. Things like how, back in the 90's, the French charged taxes all small car engines except the one specific displacement which both French automakers but no one else made.
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
We're already used to you doing it.
"The boastful seeks the company of parasites." (Spinoza)
This...coming from an American. A bit rich don't you think?Originally Posted by Dinner
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
Not as rich as this coming form a Brit.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
Don't think so.
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
You had laws forbidding us having domestic industry!
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
yay, tax-free baby seal furs
Riiiiight, keeping it current I see...
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
Hey, who threw all of our tea in the dock? Yeah! You could've at least heated the harbour up first so you got a nice cup of tea!
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
It was sun tea, you snobs!
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
**** tea it's disgusting.
More free trade
I come from the land of the ice and snow
From the rust belt where industry won't go
Come the revokation of independence, you're going to be up against the wall for that comment...**** tea it's disgusting.
More free trade
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
Forget that, I want baby seal stir fry!
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
PH, once you all have a navy that can actually make it across the ocean again, we'll talk further.
I come from the land of the ice and snow
From the rust belt where industry won't go
Dude, there was this thing called the Falklands...
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
royally spanked, and removal of the crown jewels
so, what exactely are we, euros, going to export to you, canadians, that the chinese can not deliver at half the price ?
"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."
Snootery.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
BBC has some decent shows. Fortunately we MeriKanize them for our Canadian friends.
"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter
Yes, we all know you North Americans could use some snot. :yes:
"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."
Always the salesman.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
Smelly cheese?
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
They can probably get their fill of that from Quebec.
I come from the land of the ice and snow
From the rust belt where industry won't go
You want to know how absurdly protectionist the EU still is? Read this article from today's NPR news feed.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/201...h-winerys-plan
It's just one example but it's a telling one and it's just the tip of the iceberg. A successful English winery wanted to increase it's sales even though it can take years for newly planted vines to begin producing high end fruit. No problem, they figured they'd just find growers outside the country who were selling top quality wine grapes at reasonable prices and then market the resulting wine under a sub-label until their English vineyard expansion came of age. This, of course, didn't sit well with the overly protectionist and massively bureaucratic autocrats in Brussels.
"Successful English winery" = your post smells of BS
"The boastful seeks the company of parasites." (Spinoza)
Cars, windmills, software...
"The boastful seeks the company of parasites." (Spinoza)
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