Canada’s leading Ukrainian-Canadian newspaper, The New Pathway Ukrainian News, published a feature article about CUTIS Project – an initiative of CUCC funded by Global Affairs Canada. Please find the whole text below. Update of CUTIS activities in 2018 The Canada-Ukraine Trade and Investment Support (CUTIS) Project is a five-year development assistance project undertaken with the ... Read More
Opinion: Ukrainians want a democratic, reliable, and economically strong country. With Canada’s help, we will continue efforts to deliver it for our mutual benefit Ukraine is a trusted friend and partner for Canada. Our relationship spans more than a century of shared family, cultural and political connections. The next step in our ongoing journey together ... Read More
I wear many different hats in the Ukrainian community here in Canada, one of them as а member of the Board of the Canada Ukraine Chamber of Commerce (CUCC). In that capacity, last week I attended an investment trade show that featured some of the most dynamic companies from Ukraine showing off their impressive array ... Read More
Ukraine is becoming a market of new opportunities and has every chance to join the list of the most dynamic economies in Europe, hence the Canadian business should be mainstreaming our state. This was stated by Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman during the Ukrainian-Canadian Business Forum held in Toronto. “I discover Canada these days, ... Read More
I have been in Ukraine since October 2014; I arrived soon after the Revolution of Dignity began. The revolution created both a strong desire for reform and a call for social justice, but at the same time it also led to the occupation of Crimea and the beginning of the Russian-backed aggression of Donbas. As ... Read More
The decision has been supported by 272 MPs with a required minimum of 226 votes. The FTA retains certain trade restrictions introduced by both sides. Canada cancels duties on 98 percent of Ukrainian products, mainly agricultural ones, with the exception of poultry, dairy products, cheeses and eggs that are still subject to quotas. The document cancels ... Read More
The Ukraine-Canada treaty will enter into power 30 days after ratification in Ottawa The Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko filed a draft bill on ratifying the agreement on Ukraine-Canada free trade zone, the UNIAN agency reports. The bill war referred as urgent for approving at the Verkhovna Rada. The mentioned treaty provides Ukrainian businesses a customs-free access ... Read More
Under article 93 of the Constitution of Ukraine and article 9 of the Law of Ukraine on the International Treaties of Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko submitted the draft Law on the Ratification of the Free Trade Area Agreement between Ukraine and Canada for consideration by the Parliament as an immediate one. The Law ratifies the ... Read More
November 3, 2016 – OTTAWA, ON – Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Trade, today introduced legislation in the House of Commons to implement CUFTA. The legislation will be subject to all required stages of the legislative process. Canada is committed to the timely ratification of CUFTA so Canadians and Ukrainians ... Read More
Returning IT entrepreneurs can help Ukraine to upgrade from breadbasket to brainbasket In February 1992 my former employer, Digital Equipment of Canada, moved me to Kyiv to develop its IT business from scratch. At the time, DEC was the No. 2 global IT company. Prior to my arrival, the transfer of sophisticated technology was prohibited ... Read More
