AFM131 Lecture Notes - Basel Iii, Barack Obama, Financial Services

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Accounting & Financial Management
• Course: AFM131
• Professor: Robert Sproule

Document Summary

6 potential stumbling blocks to canada-eu trade deal. Negotiators from the federal and provincial governments are spending a second week in brussels for intensive negotiations toward a canada-european union free trade agreement. The canada-eu talks were originally supposed to wrap up by the end of 2011. That timeline was extended by a year as negotiators on both sides said talks were progressing, albeit more slowly than hoped. In the last few months of 2012, prime minister stephen harper has repeatedly said he hoped to see talks conclude before the end of the year. The impetus to conclude the talks for the eu is to show the americans they are willing to make reasonable compromises in future talks when it comes to agriculture. Despite the delays, sources familiar with the negotiations say they believe a deal is within reach in the coming weeks, but at the outset of the latest talks, six key points remained unresolved: automobiles.