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The Canada Europe Roundtable for Business is dedicated to creating business opportunities between Canada and the European Union. Founded in 1999, CERT develops company-member interests by contributing recommendations on trade and investment to government officials and hosting thematic, high-level meetings focused on developing strategic relationships between company executives and with government officials.

CERT is a strong advocate for comprehensive bilateral free trade and investment and organized the support of more than 100 Chief Executives for a greater level of ambition for bilateral commercial liberalization. The result included a Declaration in support of a Canada-EU Trade and Investment Agreement that was submitted to heads of government in late 2008. At the EU-Summit Summit on May 6, 2009 in Prague, the leaders of the European Union and Canada announced the launch of negotiations towards a comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA). 

The CETA was formally signed at a EU Canada Leaders Summit in Brussels on October 30, 2016. The agreement was ratified in the Canadian and European Parliaments in the first half of 2017 and came into force on September 21, 2017. Now three years in, the CETA has led to a dramatic 25% increase in trade and investment between Canada and the EU.

To read the consolidated version of all chapters, annexes and declarations for CETA click here.

Pour un aperçu des résultats négociés, cliquez ici.

Jean-Claude Junker, President of the European Commission, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada and Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, sign CETA on October 2016 in Brussels.

Jason Langrish, Executive Director of CERT, discussions the challenges in negotiating an outcome for Brexit