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Text on the Canadian government website: the “Canada-UK Trade Continuity Agreement (Canada-UK TCA) — Agreement on Trade Continuity“
https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/cuktca-acccru/agreement_trade_continuity-accord_continuite_commerciale.aspx?lang=eng
Note: “The provisions of CETA are incorporated by reference into and made part of this Agreement, mutatis mutandis…”
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https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/cuktca-acccru/agreement_trade_continuity-accord_continuite_commerciale.aspx?lang=eng
Note: “The provisions of CETA are incorporated by reference into and made part of this Agreement, mutatis mutandis…”
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That UK-Canada text is very brief. Only 7 articles, because CETA provisions are “incorporated”
Here is CETA, the EU-Canada Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement. Covers everything from goods and services to sustainable development and labour:
https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ceta/ceta-chapter-by-chapter/
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Here is CETA, the EU-Canada Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement. Covers everything from goods and services to sustainable development and labour:
https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ceta/ceta-chapter-by-chapter/
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CHEESE: an exchange of letters on tariff-rate quotas
(TRQs
duty-free/low duty on limited import quantities)
UK cheese is eligible for part of the EU quota to end-2023 then non-EU quota.
Unclear if this means unused parts of those quotas
https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/cuktca-acccru/cheese_letter-lettre_fromage.aspx?lang=eng
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(TRQs
duty-free/low duty on limited import quantities)UK cheese is eligible for part of the EU quota to end-2023 then non-EU quota.
Unclear if this means unused parts of those quotas
https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/cuktca-acccru/cheese_letter-lettre_fromage.aspx?lang=eng
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The letters says the UK has access to Canada’s cheese tariff quotas committed in the WTO.
In CETA, Canada gives specific tariff quotas to EU cheese some reallocated from the WTO quota
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10973-2016-ADD-1/en/pdf
H/T @janycemcgregor for link to letters
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-uk-trade-bill-introduced-1.5833879
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In CETA, Canada gives specific tariff quotas to EU cheese some reallocated from the WTO quota
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10973-2016-ADD-1/en/pdf
H/T @janycemcgregor for link to letters
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-uk-trade-bill-introduced-1.5833879
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