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EU-Canada Free Trade Deal to Take Effect Sept. 21

The European Union and Canada have set an effective date of Sept. 21 for their Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a joint statement (here). On that date,…

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the free trade agreement will provisionally apply, “thus allowing for all the necessary implementing measures to be taken before that date,” the statement said. “The agreement will now be provisionally applied and will enter definitively into force once the Parliaments in all Member States of the EU ratify the text according to their respective domestic constitutional requirements,” it said.