What is the CETA?
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union (EU) helps create jobs, strengthens economic relations and stimulates Canada’s trade with the world’s second largest market. The CETA is a progressive free trade agreement that covers virtually all sectors and facets of the Canada-EU trade relationship with the aim of eliminating or reducing trade barriers. For example, prior to the entry into force of the CETA, only 25% of the EU’s tariff lines on Canadian products were duty-free. Thanks to the CETA, 98% of its EU tariff lines are now duty-free for Canadian products. When the agreement is fully implemented, the EU will have eliminated tariffs on 99% of its tariff lines.
What does CETA mean for Canadian companies?
Get ahead of your competitors
Find out how your company can benefit from preferential access to the EU market – access that companies in most other countries will not have.
Optimize your results
Learn how CETA opens the European market to Canadian origin goods and offers Canadian service exporters the best access ever granted by the EU to a free trade partner.
Discover CETA
Find out what CETA covers and what it does.
CETA tariff quotas for cheese
Information on the tariff quotas for cheese provided for in the CETA.
Quotas linked to the origin of the CETA
Information on the new quotas linked to the origin of the CETA is now available through notices to importers and exporters.
Benefits for SMEs
What does the CETA mean for foreign investors?
What does the CETA mean for foreign investors?
Make Canada your gateway to the world
Find out why preferential access to nearly half of the world’s production of goods and services makes Canada a destination of choice for your investments.
Explore Canada
Find out how investing in Canada’s provinces, territories and cities can stimulate your company’s growth.
The EU at your fingertips
Key Sectors
Access information for Canadian companies on business opportunities in 12 key sectors of the EU.
EU markets
Familiarise yourself with the EU’s dynamic markets and the exceptional qualities of this economy, which is the most integrated in the world. Choose a market
Canada Info-Tariff
Use this tool to explore tariff information for the EU market, as well as for other countries with which Canada has a free trade agreement.
