International Trade committee  That's a really good question. There are always two ways of looking at it. I will give you my opinion. Strategically, it was a good move to leave them out. As a practitioner, I normally like to have everything neatly in one agreement so that I don't have to go looking for the va

International Trade committee  I'm not sure if it wasn't in the context of the safeguard mechanism, that you're able to adjust and become more competitive during that adjustment period. I don't know of anything in this particular agreement that says the agricultural sector is going to be more competitive as

International Trade committee  From what I've read in the past, I don't see agriculture playing a big part in the free trade agreements due to the cost to transport goods from a distance. When you have the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA, we're neighbours, so it's easy to ship back and forth across t

International Trade committee  To be honest with you, I don't see anything else in the agreement. In trade in goods agreements, you usually don't have much that's of concern besides the lowering of the tariffs. Canada is following the SPS agreement, not that it affects ships. It affects agriculture more. It's

International Trade committee  In answer to your question, under the Canada–EFTA free trade agreement, there is a deadline, so you can't bring a case forward after that phase-out period has expired. So once the 15 years are up.... Now the agreement says that for everything other than shipbuilding, it's a seven

International Trade committee  SCM agreement means subsidies and countervailing measures.

International Trade committee  Yes, Mr. Miller, what you're asking about is a country-specific safeguard mechanism. When we entered into the GATT, there was a safeguard mechanism under the safeguard agreement. Because we have agreed to tariff concessions in the agreement, and the tariffs are going down, and be

International Trade committee  I have a legal rather than an economics background, so it's outside my skill-set to talk about economic effects. From an academic perspective, I recognize that the agricultural provisions of the agreement seem to leave our agricultural policies in place. This is in article 3.2: “

International Trade committee  There's nothing I've read suggesting they're any more protected than Canada. I think the provision is reciprocal. So there's equal protection on both sides—as I read the agreement from an academic perspective—because both of the parties declare that insofar as their agricultural

International Trade committee  We protect ourselves under the WTO agreement. If this industry continues to be subsidized, we have mechanisms at our disposal to take Norway to task for that. Whether or not we choose to do so will be a political decision. I come back to the Brazilian aircraft cases at the WTO, w

International Trade committee  I haven't done that research, but the OECD has an excellent paper that came out in the last five years on the service sector. It deals with the exponential benefit that comes from the liberalization of the service sector. They gave certain examples. The key for the service secto

International Trade committee  In answer to your question, I look at article X of the Canada EFTA free trade agreement and it basically says that all duties are removed except as otherwise provided in annex E, and annex E is the shipbuilding annex. Then it says that “duties shall be prohibited” for all “produc

International Trade committee  In answer to your question, I don't know of any shipbuilding studies so I can't really be helpful about the contents. I've not come across anything in my research that's publicly available on the industry. I am following the Korea free trade agreement closely. Wherever you have a

International Trade committee  Yes. My understanding of the agreement is that the government procurement aspects of the agreement say they are going to follow the WTO agreement. Canada is a signatory to the WTO agreement on government procurement and so are the EFTA countries. It's a plural lateral agreement;

International Trade committee  That would be beef.