Canadian International Trade Law.

International trade covers a broad range of topics, from private commercial transactions between individuals to agreements between governments.

The agreements that make up international trade include trade in goods, trade in services, capital mobility, expropriation of property rights, labour standards and mobility, international monetary stability, and economic development.

Numerous organizations are involved in the development and negotiation of agreements. Some of these organizations are:

• the WTO,
• GATT,
• the IMF,
• World Bank ,
• European Union,
• NAFTA,
• ASEAN and
• APEC.

Current significant international trade issues involve the entry of China into the WTO, new negotiations over agriculture and services and the impact of electronic commerce.

References

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
This department's mandate is to promote Canadian security, prosperity and values abroad.

Canadian International Trade Tribunal
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal) is an administrative tribunal operating within Canada's trade remedies system. It is an independent quasi-judicial body that carries out its statutory responsibilities in an autonomous and impartial manner and reports to Parliament through the Minister of Finance.

The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has authority to:

• conduct inquiries into whether dumped or subsidized imports have caused, or are threatening to cause, material injury to a domestic industry;
• hear appeals of decisions of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency made under the Customs Act, the Excise Tax Act and the Special Import Measures Act;
• conduct inquiries and provide advice on such economic, trade and tariff issues as are referred to the Tribunal by the Governor in Council or the Minister of Finance;
• conduct inquiries into complaints by potential suppliers concerning procurement by the federal government that is covered by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Agreement on Internal Trade and the World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement;
• conduct safeguard inquiries into complaints by domestic producers that increased imports are causing, or threatening to cause, serious injury to domestic producers; and
• conduct investigations into requests from Canadian producers for tariff relief on imported textile inputs that they use in their production operations.

Industry Canada
The Federal department in charge of economic issues.

G8 Information Centre
This University of Toronto website provides information on the G8, documents and texts from G8 Summit and Ministerial Meetings.

Revised Guide to International Trade Law Sources on the Internet
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