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Breaking Down Canada’s Internal Trade Barriers

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  • Christopher Cotton

    (Queen's University)

  • Daniel Teeter

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.

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  • Christopher Cotton & Daniel Teeter, 2025. "Breaking Down Canada’s Internal Trade Barriers," Working Paper 1529, Economics Department, Queen's University.
    • Handle: RePEc:qed:wpaper:1529
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    Keywords

    Internal Trade Barriers; Interprovincial Trade; Trade Barriers; Economic Trade; Canada;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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