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Canada’s House of Commons approves TPP-11 implementing bill

October 16, 2018 at 5:56 PM
A bill to ratify the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership cleared Canada’s House of Commons on Tuesday on a 236 to 44 vote. If the Senate approves the bill, Canada will become the fourth country to ratify the CPTPP, behind Mexico, Singapore and Japan. Six countries must ratify the pact before it can enter into force; that is expected to happen in early 2019. "We can now expect that six countries will finish domestic procedures in November after...

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