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November 18, 2009

Ottawa introduces legislation to implement Free Trade Agreement with Jordan

The Government of Canada introduced legislation in Parliament this week to implement the Canada-Jordan free trade agreement (FTA) and parallel agreements on labour cooperation and the environment.

Upon implementation of the free trade agreement Jordan will eliminate all non-agricultural tariffs and the vast majority of agricultural tariffs.

More specifically, once the FTA enters into force, Jordan will immediately eliminate tariffs on many key Canadian exports, including pulse crops, frozen french fries, animal feed, various prepared foods, certain forestry products and machinery.

Canada will eliminate all tariffs on Jordanian goods immediately upon entry into force of the FTA, with the exception of over-quota tariffs on dairy, poultry and eggs, which are excluded from tariff reductions.