International Trade & Investment Law

This article-by-article Commentary on the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is a vital resource for practitioners and academics in the field of EU investment protection law.

This text is a translation from French offering a concise analysis of the draft Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific topic area and generally includes a brief summary of the topic, reviews the pre-CETA landscape and how it has been changed by the agreement, a comparison to other trade agreements and concluding remarks.

Written by recognized leaders in international trade with decades of combined experience, The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the European Union and Canada: Economic Perspectives and Legal Analysis offers invaluable insight and expert commentary on the potential implications of the agreement now that it has come into force, after two years of provisional application.

Scott Sinclair, the author, is a senior research fellow with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, where he directs the centre’s Trade and Investment Research Project offers a commentary on the September 2014 discussions. The text explores sections related to: Executive summary investment -- Public procurement -- Public services -- Regulation -- Intellectual property rights -- Trade, tariffs and transport -- Agriculture and food sovereignty -- Workers and the environment.