Madam Chair, we continue to work to fully implement the trade agreements that we've negotiated and brought into force over the past few years. As my colleague, Mr. Alexander, mentioned, those are the CUSMA and the CPTPP, which, as you know, is a very ambitious comprehensive free trade agreement with 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
We're now, in that regard, looking to expand the agreement to accept new economies to join. Our focus right now is negotiations with the United Kingdom, which has expressed an interest in formally acceding to this trade agreement, and we're looking at those negotiations as providing more of a precedent and a model for future accessions from other parts of the world.
As I'm sure you know, we've also received heightened interest from other economies around the world, and we have received formal applications to join the CPTPP from Taiwan, China and, more recently, Ecuador. We know that other countries, specifically in the Asia-Pacific region, like Thailand, Indonesia and Korea, are also very interested.
On one front, we're continuing to implement that trade agreement to make sure Canadian producers and exporters take full advantage of the benefits provided to them through that agreement, while at the same time expanding the opportunities.
On top of that, Madam Chair, I would say that we continue to have a very active negotiating calendar. We're negotiating with the block of 10 ASEAN countries. We're negotiating a free trade agreement with Indonesia. We're also negotiating a more permanent free trade agreement with the United Kingdom, and negotiations continue with other important economies for Canada.