This week sees the launch of free trade between Canada and its 10 partners in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). U.S. President Donald Trump, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Neto, left, participate in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement signing ceremony in Buenos Aires. In just one mandate, the Trudeau government has concluded three landmark trade deals: the CPTPP; the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union, world’s largest economy; and the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). During that same period, EU exports to Canada have jumped almost 14 per cent. And U.S. President Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs on Canadian aluminum and steel [https://www.thestar.com/business/2018/12/18/steel-aluminum-tariffs-impacting-one-third-of-canadian-exporters-poll-says.html], a violation of international trade law, remain in place.

Source: thestar January 02, 2019 21:39 UTC