How do we expect Russia to fix the Crimea conundrum before we drop trade sanctions?

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Canada begins ratification of free trade deal with Ukraine


The government has introduced the relevant legislation

Days after signing the long-delayed free trade deal with the EU, the Canadian government has introduced the legislation to implement a similar agreement with Ukraine, according to Radio Canada International.

‘We are one step closer to being able to reap the benefits of the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA), which will generate opportunities for Canadians and Ukrainians alike', International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday.


The free trade agreement was signed by the country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian Economy Minister Stepan Kubiv in Kyiv on July 11, 2016, marking Trudeau's first official visit to Ukraine.

When the deal enters into force, it will basically remove all tariffs on goods traded between the two countries.

Despite the situation in Donbas and Crimea, the trade between Ukraine and Canada increased by 14 percent in 2015 over the previous year, with almost USD 278 mln in total, the statistics say.

Ukraine imports from Canada various commodities, including pharmaceuticals, fish and coking coal, and exports fertilizers, iron and anthracite coal.

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Ukraine-Canada partnership: Canada begins ratification of free trade deal with Ukraine

 

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Crimea is doing just fine without the Ukraine. The Ukraine should be more concerned the corruption in Kiev.

Two-and-a-half years after Crimea rejoined Russia in 2014, there is an impressive military contingent currently deployed there capable of fighting back any outside military threat to the Black Sea peninsula, Rossiiskaya Gazeta wrote.

Crimea has recently seen its defenses dramatically ramped up with the arrival of the state-of-the-art Bal and Bastion mobile coastal defense batteries, the Novorossiisk and Rostov-on-Don nuclear submarines, S-300, S-400, BukM2 and Pantsir-S1 air defense systems. Bal The Bal mobile anti-ship missile system is designed to control territorial waters and protect naval bases and other coastal facilities and infrastructure. The Bal system was adopted by the Russian Armed Forces in 2008.

Read more: https://sputniknews.com/russia/201611051047100746-russia-crimea-missiles/

Canada begins ratification of free trade deal with Ukraine


The government has introduced the relevant legislation

Days after signing the long-delayed free trade deal with the EU, the Canadian government has introduced the legislation to implement a similar agreement with Ukraine, according to Radio Canada International.

‘We are one step closer to being able to reap the benefits of the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA), which will generate opportunities for Canadians and Ukrainians alike', International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday.


The free trade agreement was signed by the country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian Economy Minister Stepan Kubiv in Kyiv on July 11, 2016, marking Trudeau's first official visit to Ukraine.

When the deal enters into force, it will basically remove all tariffs on goods traded between the two countries.

Despite the situation in Donbas and Crimea, the trade between Ukraine and Canada increased by 14 percent in 2015 over the previous year, with almost USD 278 mln in total, the statistics say.

Ukraine imports from Canada various commodities, including pharmaceuticals, fish and coking coal, and exports fertilizers, iron and anthracite coal.

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Ukraine-Canada partnership: Canada begins ratification of free trade deal with Ukraine

So far it has only been military supplies that is used to kill their own countrymen. I'm quite sure Ottawa would be a bit pissed if Kiev was supplying the Republic of Alberta with arms to fight against other Provinces. The people in the west seem to have forgotten to think for themselves and the result isn't pretty. We deserve a crash just so things can be reset back 100 years.

 

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Ukraine imports from Canada various commodities, including pharmaceuticals, fish and coking coal, and exports fertilizers, iron and anthracite coal.
Coals to newcastle comes to mind, why on gods green would we import coal from ukraine when our trading partner to the south has coal aplenty just across the border.
US steel is staking themselves with canadian smelters medical benefits making it tough to understand canadian working stiffs suffering corporate malevolence when we have such savvy bureaucratic horse traders. I guess buying coal from those that bought stelco to turn a quick buck or two is not an optic political jugheads want made public.
Judge rejects effort to restore Stelco retirees’ benefits

 

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Moving coal around just make it more expensive rather than it being a necessity. South America to the US is the best example of how it is meant to subsidize coal producers in other countries rather than it being actually needed. All it did in the US was put coal miners out of work rather than saving the atmosphere.