We've signed trade agreements. We signed a trade agreement with the European Union, and that means we now have 500 million customers in Canada's free trade zone. We have agreed to NAFTA 2, for lack of a better acronym. Very importantly for canola in particular, we have signed and ratified the CPTPP.
Importantly, we were among the first six nations to ratify it. That made record speed through the House of Commons and the Senate, and I want to pause for a moment to thank my Conservative colleagues, in particular Ed Fast, who did a lot of work on this file. Because of the co-operation of the opposition and the Senate, we were able to ratify the CPTPP before the end of the year, which meant we have had two tariff reductions, one at the end of December 2018 and one at the beginning of 2019. This means our producers have been first to take advantage of this market. We now know that in the month of January alone, our exports to CPTPP countries grew by 17% year over year.
That is the kind of diversification of markets that matters. We now sell canola to 50 countries internationally, and we continue to redouble our efforts to make sure that countries other than China are reminded of the high quality of our canola and to deepen our trading relationship with them.