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Vancouver: CETA Conference & Business Forum

Vancouver: CETA Conference & Business Forum

A great event in Vancouver to celebrate CETA's provisional application and promote the business networking Europe – Canada

 

Vancouver - On September 27, during the visit of the European delegation, was held in Vancouver a major event to celebrate the entry into force of the provisional trade agreement between Europe and Canada, CETA - the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

The CETA Conference & Business Forum, organized by the European Chamber of Commerce of Vancouver, in partnership with the Chambers of Commerce of Richmond and British Columbia, had as its primary objective to inform participants about new business opportunities following the entry into force of the Agreement and create opportunity for meetings between Canadian companies and the representatives of local authorities and a European delegation on an official visit in Vancouver.

The conference was structured in two distinct sessions, a first informative and a second of networking and B2B.

Celso Boscariol, president of the European Chamber of Commerce in Vancouver, opened the proceedings highlighting the importance of this historic moment, marking the end of a long trading period and the beginning of an active trade partnership between Canada and the European Union. Celso Boscariol continued, recalling that Europe is currently Canada's second largest trading partner, and Canada, on the other hand, is ranked 11th in the list of Europe's largest economic partners. His intervention was followed by those of Matt Pitcairn, Executive Director of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, Fazil Mihlar and Regan Khan respectively, deputy minister and manager of the British Columbia Ministry of Commerce, Technology and Employment, and Gabor Simon, Commercial Manager at the Belgian Embassy in Ottawa, Karsten Mecklenburg, the Commercial and Economic Section of the European Delegation in Canada, and Jeffrey Lang, a member of the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture.

Everyone looked enthusiastically at the CETA agreement, which abolishes almost all customs duties, helping to make European businesses more competitive in Canada and also facilitating their participation in public procurement.

The Agreement also protects 98% of Italian DOP and IGP exports. CETA is a step forward in the fight against the Italian sounding by introducing a clause that prohibits the evocation of names, images and symbols that call for a nationality other than those of the origin of the product. For the first time a country with a potentially important market like Canada has just recognized the system of geographical indications.

At the end of two panel discussions on agri-food and technology, participants had the opportunity to meet one to one the speakers, representatives of the European states and all the associations operating in the area to promote collaboration between Canada and Europe.

 

 

Overall, the success of the CETA Conference & Business Forum has exceeded expectations, with a participation of over 200 people registered.

The European Chamber of Commerce in Canada - West hopes that Canadian companies of the western provinces of the country will seize the most of all the advantages of the CETA agreement and that the interest of European trade actually grow toward these geographically distant areas.

Useful Links:

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/tradehelp

https://www.tariffinder.ca

http://eu-canada.com