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So the US can't access the EU through: US -> Canada -> EU But somehow the EU can access the US through: EU -> Canada -> US What part af that path does

by avar 10y ago

So the US can't access the EU through: US -> Canada -> EU But somehow the EU can access the US through: EU -> Canada -> US What part af that path doesn't involve a bidirectional free trade agreement that would make it just as easy for the US to access the EU via Canada as the other way around?

riffraff 10y ago
the assumption is that the EU-Canada agreement puts more restrictions on products so that everything which is allowed on the second path goes through all of it, but the opposite is not true. (AFAIK this isn't generally true outside of agro/food but that is a large part of potential US->EU exports being erased while "Italian shoes" and "french wine" still get through in the other direction)