Negotiations and Agreements
Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection (FIPAs)
A Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) is a bilateral agreement aimed at protecting and promoting foreign investment through legally-binding rights and obligations. For more information on FIPAs, please visit Canada's Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements on the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada website.
FIPAs in Force
- Canada - Argentina (FIPA) - Brought into force: April 29, 1993
- Canada - Armenia (FIPA) - Brought into force: March 29, 1999
- Canada - Barbados (FIPA) - Brought into force: January 17, 1997
- Canada - Costa Rica (FIPA) - Brought into force: September 29, 1999
- Canada - Croatia (FIPA) - Brought into force: January 30, 2001
- Canada - Czech Republic (FIPA) - Brought into force: January 22, 2012
- Canada - Ecuador (FIPA) - Brought into force: June 6, 1997
- Canada - Egypt (FIPA) - Brought into force: November 3, 1997
- Canada - Hungary (FIPA) - Brought into force: November 21, 1993
- Canada - Jordan (FIPA) - Brought into force: December 14, 2009
- Canada - Latvia (FIPA) - Brought into force: November 24, 2011
- Canada - Lebanon (FIPA) - Brought into force: June 19, 1999
- Canada - Panama (FIPA) - Brought into force: February 13, 1998
- Canada - Peru (FIPA) - Brought into force: June 20, 2007
- Canada - Philippines (FIPA) - Brought into force: November 13, 1996
- Canada - Poland (FIPA) -Brought into force: November 22, 1990
- Canada - Romania (FIPA) - Brought into force: November 23, 2011
- Canada - Russian Federation (FIPA)* - Brought into force: June 27, 1991
*Further to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, the FIPA now binds Russia as the continuing State. - Canada - Slovak Republic (FIPA) - Brought into force: March 14, 2012
- Canada - Thailand (FIPA) - Brought into force: September 24, 1998
- Canada - Trinidad and Tobago (FIPA) - Brought into force: July 8, 1996
- Canada - Ukraine (FIPA) - Brought into force: July 24, 1995
- Canada - Uruguay (FIPA) - Brought into force: June 2, 1999
- Canada - Venezuela (FIPA) - Brought into force: January 28, 1998
FIPAs - Negotiations concluded
- Canada - Bahrain - Negotiations concluded: February 2010
- Canada - Bénin - Date of signature: January 2013
- Canada - Cameroon - Negotiations concluded: November 2012
- Canada - China - Date of signature: September 2012
- Canada - Kuwait - Date of signature: September 2011
- Canada - Madagascar - Negotiations concluded: August 2008
- Canada - Mali - Negotiations concluded: October 2011
- Canada - Nigeria - Negotiations concluded: April 2013
- Canada – Senegal -Negotiations concluded: September 2012
- Canada - Tanzania - Date of signature: May 2013
- Canada - Zambia - Negotiations concluded: January 2013
