Canada’s world-class sustainable technologies industry stands to benefit from a growing market expected to reach $3 trillion by 2020
July 8, 2014 - Geneva, Switzerland - Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada
The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, today announced that Canada along with 13 other World Trade Organization members, including China, the European Union, Japan and the United States, are launching negotiations toward a new WTO plurilateral agreement on environmental goods. The first round of negotiations will take place on July 9 and 10, 2014, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Canada’s Global Markets Action Plan identifies the sustainable technologies sector as a priority for Canada to create jobs and opportunities. Participating in these negotiations is consistent with the government’s leadership on the world stage in support of freer and more open trade, as well as with its trade expansion plan—the most ambitious in Canadian history.
An agreement on environmental goods would give Canadian companies—already leaders in the sustainable-technologies industry—a significant commercial advantage in exporting a broad range of environmental products, such as equipment used in the production of renewable energy, air-handling equipment, water treatment technologies and waste management and recycling equipment.
Shannon Gutoskie
Press Secretary
Office of the Honourable Ed Fast
Minister of International Trade
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Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada
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