Have you ever tried to sell your goods abroad and have you found the tariffs prohibitive or the requirements of the business too confusing or unpredictable? There are many problems that Canadians face when trying to expand their business internationally. One of the ways the Government of Canada is helping to remove and remove trade barriers is to negotiate comprehensive free trade agreements on preferential access to global markets. Understanding how a free trade agreement can help your business abroad compete abroad may seem scary, especially for SMEs, but many resources are available to seize the opportunities they exploit. We strongly recommend that you use the Support Programs of the Canadian Trade Service (CHT). The CHT is present in 160 cities around the world, including all markets where Canada has a free trade agreement that will provide you with qualified local advice and contacts and discuss possible support programs to support your international expansion, such as CanExport. Once you have found that your property has a tariff preference and you comply with the current rule of origin, the final step is the import preference requirement. The agreement specifies how and who must certify that the property complies with the rule of origin. This process may vary slightly from one free trade agreement to another, but the basic concepts are the same. The exporter or importer must provide a certificate or declaration containing basic information about the product concerned and certifying that it complies with the rule of origin. One of the most important provisions of NAFTA provided for the status of “domestic products” for products imported from other NAFTA countries. No state, province or local government could impose taxes or tariffs on these goods. In addition, at the time of the agreement, tariffs were either abolished or abolished in five or ten equal steps. The only exception to the exit was the issue of sensitive points for which the exit period would be 15 years.
Footnote 1 If your customs code is “MFN duty-free,” you can export duty-free to that country without having to use an ESTV. The rate of MFN (most favoured nation) is the largest that an importing country can produce for an importing country in a country with which there is no free trade agreement. Its paper examines the impact of the free trade agreement on a large number of performance indicators in Canadian manufacturing from 1989 to 1996. In one-third of the sectors with the largest tariff reductions between 5 and 33 per cent and 10 per cent on average during this period, employment fell by 15 per cent, production fell by 11 per cent and the number of farms decreased by 8 per cent. These sectors include manufacturers of clothing, footwear, upholstered furniture, coffins and cases, furs and glues. For the manufacturing industry as a whole, the comparable figures are 5, 3 and 4 per cent, respectively, Trefler estimates. “These figures measure the high adjustment costs associated with redistributing protected, inefficient and low-end production resources,” he notes. Which country gives you access to 1.5 billion consumers in 51 countries? Le Canada. In terms of access to the global market, things are not improving.
