Canada - Chile Free Trade Agreement

Canadian-Chilean relations reached an important milestone in 2007, with the 10th anniversary of the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA). Signed on December 5, 1996, and implemented on July 5, 1997, the CCFTA is a comprehensive agreement that covers trade in goods and services, as well as the bilateral investment relationship. The CCFTA was Canada’s first Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with a South American country, while for Chile it was the first comprehensive FTA concluded with any country.

Since the CCFTA’s entry into force a decade ago, bilateral trade in goods has increased by 226%, growing from $718 million when the CCFTA entered into force in 1997 to $2.34 billion in 2006. Bilateral trade in services reached $164 million in 2005 (the latest year for which statistics are available), and Canadian investments in Chile reached $5.17 billion in 2006.

As the bilateral trade relationship moves forward, Canada will continue to look for ways to further enhance its trade and economic relationship with Chile.

• Text of the Agreement
• • Part Three bis Government Procurement - Chapter Kbis
  • Financial Services: (Negotiation of a Financial Services Chapter concluded in July 2007. Review of the legal text in English, French and Spanish is currently underway, after which it will be formally signed and then ratified according to each country’s domestic procedures before being implemented).
• Schedule of Canada
• Schedule of Chile (Spanish document with English introduction and legend).
• First Additional Protocol to Amend the CCFTA (Tariff Acceleration)
  (Signed in Toronto, Canada on November 4, 1999).
  Spanish version
• Second Additional Protocol to Amend the CCFTA (Tariff Compensation)
  (Signed in Santiago, Chile on January 4, 2002).
  Spanish version
• Third Additional Protocol to Amend the CCFTA (Tariff Reduction)
  (Signed in Santiago, Chile on November 8, 2004).
  Spanish version
• Technical Rectifications to Rules of Origin Annexes and Regulations
  • Technical Rectifications 2005
    On January 1, 2005, Canada and Chile implemented technical rectifications to the CCFTA rules of origin and regulations to take into account changes in the current tariff schedules of both countries that are the result of Amendments to the Harmonized System that came into effect on January 1, 2002...
    • Annex D-01 (as of January 1, 2005)
    • Annex D-03.1 (as of January 1, 2005)
• Canada-Chile Certificate of Origin 

• Declarations of the Free Trade Commission - November 16, 2004
  (pdf 6 pages, 349 Kb)

• Canada and Chile clarify Investment Provisions in Bilateral Free Trade Agreement
  News Release - October 31, 2002

• Notes of Interpretation on Investment Chapter
  Signed by Minister Pettigrew on October 31, 2002 at the Fourth Canada-Chile Free Trade Commission meeting.

Joint Statements of the Ministers

• Seventh Meeting of the Commission - Ottawa, Canada, April 22, 2009
• Sixth Meeting of the Commission - Santiago, Chile, June 14, 2007
• Fifth Meeting of the Commission - Santiago, Chile, November 16, 2004
• Fourth Meeting of the Commission - Quito, Ecuador, October 31, 2002
• Third Meeting of the Commission - Santiago, Chile, May 10, 2001
• Second Meeting of the Commission - Toronto, Canada, November 4, 1999
• First Meeting of the Commission - Santiago, Chile, January 21, 1998

• CCAEC web site at Environment Canada
• Text of the Agreement
• CCAEC Reports

• CCALC web site at Human Resources and Social Development Canada
• Text of the Agreement
• CCALC Three Year Review

• Prime Minister Stephen Harper Visit to Santiago, Chile, July 2007
  PM’s address to Chilean business and political leaders (video) (press release)
• Directorate for International Economic Relations
  (Spanish-language web site from the Chilean government on the CCFTA)

• Pierre S. Pettigrew, Minister for International Trade -
  Visit to Uruguay, Argentina and Chile - March 8-13, 2000
  Mr. Pettigrew Address to the Canada-chile Chamber of Commerce
  Date: March 13, 2000
  Place: Santiago, Chile

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