Welcome to the event:
Building integrated EU-Canada industrial value chains
- B2B meeting facilitated by governments - 15:00 – 16:30 (CET)
- B2B Matchmaking – 16:30 – 18:00 (CET)
Event by invitations only
Critical raw materials are needed to support the green recovery, to build resilient industrial ecosystems and to help countries create a climate-neutral economy. Achieving strategic autonomy while preserving an open economy is a key objective of the EU. To reach this aim the EU will forge a series of partnerships on (critical) raw materials with key countries. Canada, as a like-minded and resource-rich country, is a natural choice to become the first to establish a raw material partnership with the EU.
As an important global supplier, Canada can supply many critical minerals to the EU, including cobalt, coking coal, graphite, niobium and platinum group metals. Advanced mineral projects offer additional potential for Canada to also supply bismuth, rare earths, lithium, magnesium, phosphate, tantalum, tungsten and vanadium. Canada is seeking strategic partnerships with allies across the critical mineral value chain to further develop capacity in processing, separation, refining, and metal-making. With support from allies, this “mines to mobility” approach can secure a resilient and green industrial ecosystem for Canada and the EU.
The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), entered into force provisionally on 21 September 2017, meaning most of the agreement now applies. It cuts tariffs and makes it easier to export goods and services, benefitting people and businesses in both the EU and Canada.
Building on the government-to-business meetings organized in 2019 and early 2020, Natural Resources Canada and the European Commission will organize a B2B meeting to bring together Canadian and European industry representatives to discuss how common interests, shared values and complementarities can be translated in a concrete partnership and concrete businesses.
The 90 minutes B2B meeting with the presence of governments will be followed by a B2B matchmaking event in small virtual private meeting rooms.
