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The purpose of each of our Montreal Kits is to describe the many aspects that characterise Montreal and Montrealers including our global trade activities. By world markets, we mean selling and buying goods and services to and from various world countries, some having more advanced technology, others having lower costs.
Exports are related to the sales of goods and services to foreign countries and imports are related to the purchases of goods and services from foreign countries.
It looks simple but it's not for various reasons including formal trade barriers such as tariff often imposed to protect local businesses and informal trade barriers such as quotas to restrict the number of products imported during a certain period of time.
Canada has 11 FTA'S - Free Trade Agreements with 15 different countries.
FTA's that offer benefits such as the elimination of barriers and the creation of new opportunities. Other benefits include customs procedures, product certification, entry procedures, better protection and government contracts.
As for global exports, EDC - Export Development Canada offers a series of "Knowledge About Markets" in the form of three (3) free articles called:
As for how to go about importing, Global Border Services Agency offers a Step-by-Step Guide to Importing Commercial Goods into Canada.
Some questions are standard to all small businesses, but importers need to inform themselves about a great many other questions.
If you are a specialist, if your field is related to the world best small cities or to the world biggest cities and if, like our gifted scholar friend Dr. John E. Peterson, you wrote articles that might interest some if not all our visitors, we invite you to share one or more of your free articles.
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