{"id":4321,"date":"2022-03-22T14:55:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T14:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2022-03-22T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T14:55:45","slug":"global-affairs-to-conduct-impact-assessments-on-a-canada-asean-free-trade-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/global-affairs-to-conduct-impact-assessments-on-a-canada-asean-free-trade-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Affairs to conduct impact assessments on a Canada-ASEAN free trade agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2021 Canada and ASEAN agreed to proceed with free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising 10 member states. Established by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand in 1967, it was later joined by Brunei, Cambodia, Lao People&#8217;s Democratic Republic, Myanmar and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>As a group, ASEAN member state economies represent Canada&#8217;s sixth-largest trading partner (2020).<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian government is now seeking the views of Canadians on the potential impacts and opportunities of a Canada-ASEAN FTA with respect to the environment &#8211; including changes in greenhouse gas (GHG) and air pollutant emissions &#8211; to inform an initial environmental assessment. The government will also examine gender and other diversity considerations through a gender-based analysis plus (GBA+).<\/p>\n<p>Link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/canadagazette.gc.ca\/rp-pr\/p1\/2022\/2022-03-12\/html\/notice-avis-eng.html#nf1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notice of intent to conduct impact assessments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2021 Canada and ASEAN agreed to proceed with free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[224],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-custom-brokerage","tag-asean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}