Canada, EU in trade row over fees on aircraft exports

Canada complains of ‘excessive fees,’ but bureaucrats on both sides of the Atlantic are downplaying the dispute.

Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is steering Canada's trading relationship with the European Union, as industry lobbyists and federal public servants try to prod the EU's aviation safety agency to lower its certification fees for Canadian aerospace exports. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

November 28, 2017

Canadian officials have been working for months to lower what they have called “excessive” fees levied on the country’s aerospace exports to Europe, but have had a hard time getting cooperation from their European counterparts.

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