Breaking Down Canada’s Internal Trade Barriers

Christopher Cotton and Daniel Teeter ()

No 1529, Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University

Abstract: This paper provides an overview of Canada’s internal trade barriers that limit cross-province trade and competition. It summarizes the different types of barriers, how costly they are for consumers and the economy, recent efforts to reduce them, and why they persist. It then summarizes 22 reforms and investments that could be undertaken by Canadian provincial and federal governments to break down the barriers. The paper classifies these reforms into four categories and presents several strategies for incentivizing reform.

Keywords: Internal Trade Barriers; Interprovincial Trade; Trade Barriers; Economic Trade; Canada (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F15 J61 L51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2025-03
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