In September 1981 Canada and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed the first economic co …

trading partners in the Pacific Rim, Canada’s trade diversification strategy must increasingly look to the Global South. In … the high-growth developing world, ASEAN stands out. Like Canada, ASEAN features a trade-dependent economy with similar … interests in maintaining an open, rules-based trading system. An ASEAN-Canada free trade agreement (ACFTA) has been long under …

shift from an Asia-Pacific to an Indo-Pacific framing for engagement with Asia being made by Canada and by many of its major … considerations. Accordingly, it is timely to revisit the merits of a Canada-ASEAN trade agreement both in direct economic terms and … as part of Canada’s broader strategy as it seeks to frame its own pivot to the Indo-Pacific. Canada’s commercial …