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The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) came into effect in September 2017, giving Canadian exporters access to the European market of approximately 500 million people.

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The new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (formerly the North American Free Trade Agreement) will provide updated ground rules for North American trade in the 21st century.

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The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is a goods-only agreement with an emphasis on tariff elimination that includes the countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

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The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership is an agreement between Canada and Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, which collectively represent 13.5 per cent of global GDP.