Q&A: What is the CETA deal?
The free trade deal has sparked internal division within the Green Party. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins
CETA is a free trade deal between the EU and Canada, called the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. It was negotiated between 2009 and 2014 and signed in 2016. Much of it has been “provisionally applied” since 2017, removing custom checks and taxes on trade, and giving mutual recognition to qualifications for professions like architects and engineers. But for the full treaty and all its provisions to come into force, the parliament of each member state of the EU has to ratify it.
