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EU-Canada negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) began in May 2009 and concluded in September 2014. Signed in October 2016, the agreement's overall aim is to increase flows of goods, services and investment. This publication analyses the extent to which public services are protected in CETA. The trade agreement takes the public sector into account by means of a (general) public sector carve-out and specific reservations introduced by the EU and the Member States in the ...

La Unión Europea y Canadá firmaron el AECG el 30 de octubre de 2016 después de largas negociaciones. En efecto, un total de 38 declaraciones y un instrumento interpretativo conjunto acompañan la decisión del Consejo sobre la firma del AECG. El Parlamento ha iniciado el procedimiento de aprobación, cuya votación está prevista para la sesión plenaria de Febrero II.

EU-Canada negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) started in May 2009 and were declared concluded at the EU-Canada Summit on 26 September 2014. The agreement's overall aim is to increase flows of goods, services and investment to the benefit of both partners. For the EU, CETA represents the first comprehensive economic agreement with a highly industrialised Western economy. Except for a few sensitive agricultural products, the agreement would remove practically all tariffs ...

EU-Canada negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) started in May 2009 and were declared concluded at the EU-Canada Summit on 26 September 2014. The agreement's overall aim is to increase flows of goods, services and investment to the benefit of both partners. For the EU, CETA represents the first comprehensive economic agreement with a highly industrialised Western economy. Except for a few sensitive agricultural products, the agreement would remove practically all tariffs ...

The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada is currently being translated into the EU’s official languages. Once the translations are available, the European Commission can propose that the Council sign and conclude the agreement on behalf of the European Union. It is not yet decided whether the agreement in its entirety would fall under the exclusive competence of the European Union or would also touch upon Member States' competences. In the latter case, ratification by the ...

El Acuerdo sobre el Comercio de Servicios (ACS), actualmente en proceso de negociación en Ginebra, es un acuerdo multilateral en el que participan 50 miembros de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC). El objetivo es liberalizar el comercio de servicios entre estos países, si bien la UE y otros agentes abrigan la esperanza de que, en una fase posterior, este acuerdo pueda formar parte integrante de las normas de la OMC. La Unión Europea es el mayor importador y exportador mundial de servicios ...

EU-Canada negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) were declared concluded in September 2014. Except for a few sensitive agricultural products, CETA would remove practically all tariffs on goods exchanged between the two partners, and create important new market opportunities in, among others, financial services, telecommunications, energy and maritime transport, while reserving the parties' right to regulate their internal public affairs. Canada would substantially open ...

A pesar del carácter más bien formal de su título («Protocolo de enmienda del Acuerdo de Marrakech por el que se establece la OMC»), aborda un aspecto muy práctico: la modernización de los procedimientos, en particular aduaneros, para aligerar el funcionamiento de los intercambios comerciales a escala internacional. Su conclusión por parte de la UE sería un gran paso adelante de cara a la entrada en vigor del Acuerdo.

Fifty-one members of the World Trade Organization (WTO): Australia, Canada, Chile, Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Liechtenstein, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States, together with the European Union and its 28 Member States – have been trying to find a way to break the deadlock in the Doha Round on liberalising trade in services since March 2013. These countries together represent ...

Cuba's main imports are machinery, food and fuel products, while its major exports are refined fuels, sugar, tobacco, nickel and pharmaceuticals. In addition to merchandise exports, Cuba pays for much-needed imports through the export of services (tourism, medical personnel working abroad), remittances from Cubans living out of the country and finance from outside benefactors. The island recently reformed its foreign investment law and opened a Chinese-style 'special economic zone' around the new ...