Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (FIPAs)
A Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) is a bilateral agreement aimed at protecting and promoting foreign investment through legally-binding rights and obligations. FIPAs accomplish their objectives by setting out the respective rights and obligations of the countries that are signatories to the treaty with respect to the treatment of foreign investment.
For more information on FIPAs, please visit Canada's Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements.
FIPAs in Force
- Canada - Argentina (FIPA) - Brought into force: April 29, 1993
- Canada - Armenia (FIPA) - Brought into force: March 29, 1999
- Canada - Barbados (FIPA) - Brought into force: January 17, 1997
- Canada - Benin (FIPA) - Brought into force: May 12, 2014
- Canada - China (FIPA) - Brought into force: October 1, 2014
- Canada - Costa Rica (FIPA) - Brought into force: September 29, 1999
- Canada - Côte d'Ivoire (FIPA) - Brought into force: December 14, 2015
- Canada - Croatia (FIPA) - Brought into force: January 30, 2001
- Canada - Czech Republic (FIPA) - Brought into force: January 22, 2012
- Canada - Ecuador (FIPA) - Brought into force: June 6, 1997
- Canada - Egypt (FIPA) - Brought into force: November 3, 1997
- Canada - Hungary (FIPA) - Brought into force: November 21, 1993
- Canada - Jordan (FIPA) - Brought into force: December 14, 2009
- Canada - Kuwait (FIPA) - Brought into Force: February 19, 2014
- Canada - Latvia (FIPA) - Brought into force: November 24, 2011
- Canada - Lebanon (FIPA) - Brought into force: June 19, 1999
- Canada - Mali (FIPA) - Brought into force: June 8, 2016
- Canada - Panama (FIPA) - Brought into force: February 13, 1998
- Canada - Peru (FIPA) - Brought into force: June 20, 2007
- Canada - Philippines (FIPA) - Brought into force: November 13, 1996
- Canada - Poland (FIPA) -Brought into force: November 22, 1990
- Canada - Romania (FIPA) - Brought into force: November 23, 2011
- Canada - Russian Federation (FIPA)* - Brought into force: June 27, 1991
*Further to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, the FIPA now binds Russia as the continuing State. - Canada - Senegal (FIPA) - Brought into force: August 5, 2016
- Canada - Serbia (FIPA) - Brought into force: April 27, 2015
- Canada - Slovak Republic (FIPA) - Brought into force: March 14, 2012
- Canada - Tanzania (FIPA) - Brought into force: December 9, 2013
- Canada - Thailand (FIPA) - Brought into force: September 24, 1998
- Canada - Trinidad and Tobago (FIPA) - Brought into force: July 8, 1996
- Canada - Ukraine (FIPA) - Brought into force: July 24, 1995
- Canada - Uruguay (FIPA) - Brought into force: June 2, 1999
- Canada - Venezuela (FIPA) - Brought into force: January 28, 1998
FIPAs Signed
- Canada - Burkina Faso - Date of signature: April 2015
- Canada - Cameroon - Date of signature: March 2014
- Canada - Guinea - Date of signature: May 2015
- Canada - Hong Kong - Date of signature: February 2016
- Canada - Nigeria - Date of signature: May 2014
Concluded FIPA Negotiations
- Canada - Albania - Negotiations concluded: November 2013
- Canada - Bahrain - Negotiations concluded: February 2010
- Canada - Madagascar - Negotiations concluded: August 2008
- Canada - Moldova - Negotiations concluded: December 2013
- Canada - Zambia - Negotiations concluded: March 2013
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