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Acronyms
- AAFC Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- ABT Agreement on Basic Telecommunications
- AGP Agreement on Government Procurement
- AIT Agreement on Internal Trade
- APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum
- AQSIQ Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (China)
- ARTQ Autonomous Tariff Rate Quota
- ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
- BSL (Japan's) Building Standards Law
- CA4 Central America Four: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
- CAP Common Agricultural Policy
- CARICOM Caribbean Community
- CCA Consultative Committee on Agriculture
- CCC Canadian Commercial Corporation
- CCRFTA Canada-Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement
- CCFTA Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement
- CDIA Canadian Direct Investment Abroad
- CEAA Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
- CET Common External Tariff
- CFE Comisión Federal de Electricidad (Mexico's state electricity firm)
- CFIA Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- CIBS Canada's International Business Strategy
- CIDA Canadian International Development Agency
- CIFTA Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement
- CISDL Centre for International Sustainable Development Law
- CITT Canadian International Trade Tribunal
- DFO Department of Fisheries and Ocean
- DSB Dispute Settlement Body
- DSU Dispute Settlement Understanding
- EC European Commission
- E-Comm Electronic Commerce
- EDC Export Development Corporation
- EEP U.S. Export Enhancement Program
- EFTA European Free Trade Association
- EIA Environmental Impact Assessments
- EMU Economic and Monetary Union
- EU European Union
- EVSL Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalization
- EXTUS Exporters to the United States
- FAC Foreign Affairs Canada
- FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- FAST Free and Secure Trade (U.S. border Initiative)
- FCM Federation of Canadian Municipalities
- FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- FDI Foreign Direct Investment
- FEMA Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act
- FERC U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- FHWA U.S. Federal Highway Administration
- FIPA Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement
- FSA Financial Services Agency (Japan)
- FSL Food Sanitation Law
- FTA (Canada-U.S.) Free Trade Agreement
- FTA U.S. Federal Transit Administration
- FTAA Free Trade Area of the Americas
- GAO U.S. General Accounting Office
- GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services
- GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- GDP Gross domestic Product
- GI Geographical Indication
- GM Genetically Modified
- GMO Genetically Modified Organism
- GPP Gross Provincial/Regional Product
- GPT General Preferential Tariff
- G-7/8 Group of Seven leading industrialized nations plus Russian Federation
- HACCP (U.S.) Seafood Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point regulations
- HS Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
- IBETS Integrated Border Enforcement Teams
- IDD International Direct Dialing (telephone services)
- ICT Information and Communication Technologies
- IEC Intergovernmental Economic Commission (Canada-Russia, Canada-Ukraine)
- IFI International Financial Institutions
- ILO International Labour Organization
- ILSA (U.S.) Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996
- IMF International Monetary Fund
- IP Intellectual Property
- ISO International Organization of Standardization
- ISTEA (U.S.) Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
- IT Information Technology
- ITA Information Technology Agreement (1997)
- ITC U.S. International Trade Commission
- ITCan International Trade Canada
- JAS Japan Agricultural Standards
- JETRO Japan External Trade Organization
- JWPTE Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment
- LDC Least Developed Country
- LIBERTAD (U.S.) Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996 (Helms-Burton Act)
- MAFF Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)
- Mercosur Southern Cone Common Market (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay)
- MFN Most-Favoured-Nation
- MMPA Marine Mammal Protection Act (U.S.)
- MMT Manganese-Based Fuel Derivative
- MOU Memorandum of Understanding
- MRA Mutual Recognition Agreement
- NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
- NATAP North American Trade Automation Prototype
- NEBS New Exporters to Border States
- NGO Non-Government Organization
- NIICD New International Instrument on Cultural Diversity
- NIST U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
- NSI North South Institute
- NTB Non-Tariff Barrier
- NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
- OAS Organization of American States
- OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
- OECS Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
- OIE World Organization for Animal Health (OIE, formerly known as the Office International des Epizooties)
- OSHA U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- PEMEX Petróleos Mexicanos (Mexico's state oil firm)
- PWN Pinewood Nematode
- R&D Research and Development
- ROO Rules of Origin
- S&DT Special and Differential Treatment
- SAGIT Sectoral Advisory Group on International Trade
- SBT Single Business Tax
- SCFAIT Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs & International Trade
- SCC Standards Council of Canada
- SCP Sugar-Containing Product
- SEA Strategic Environmental Assessment
- SECOFI Secretaria de Comercio y Fomento Industrial (Mexico's Ministry of Trade and Industrial Development)
- SERC State Regulatory Commission
- SME Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise
- SPS Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
- SPWG Special Partnership Working Group (Canada-Korea)
- SRM Specified Risk Material
- STAR Secure Trade in the APEC Region
- TBT Technical Barriers to Trade
- TCIAB Team Canada Inc. Advisory Board
- TEA-21 (U.S.) Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
- TECA Trade and Economic Co-operation Arrangement
- TICA Trade and Investment Co-operation Arrangement
- TIEA Trade Investment Enhancement Agreement (Canada - EU)
- TNC Trade Negotiations Committee (FTAA)
- TPRM Trade Policy Review Mechanism
- TRIMs Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures
- TRIPs Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
- TRQs Tariff Rate Quotas
- TRTA Trade Related Technical Assistance
- TSE Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
- UR Uruguay Round
- USTR United States Trade Representative
- VOCs Volatile Organic Compounds
- WHO World Health Organization
- WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization
- WPPS Working Party on Professional Services (WTO)
- WTO World Trade Organization
