Contracting Policy Notice 2001-3 
Update of thresholds for the World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government Procurement and the North American Free Trade Agreement
FILE NO: 395-006-000
DATE: December 28, 2001 
TO: Functional Heads, Administration/Finance of all Departments and Agencies
SUMMARY
NEW THRESHOLDS FOR PROCUREMENTS SUBJECT TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION - AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT (AGP) AND THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (NAFTA) ARE IN EFFECT JANUARY 1, 2002, AND ARE VALID UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 2003.
BACKGROUND
 Every two years, the thresholds in the procurement chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement are updated. 
This Notice amends the thresholds in Contracting Policy Notice 1999-9, and provides new thresholds, in Canadian dollars, under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government Procurement for a two-year period, January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2003. The threshold for the Agreement on Internal Trade remains unchanged at $25,000 for goods and $100,000 for services and construction. 
REVISED THRESHOLDS (IN $CDN)
World Trade Organization - Agreement on Government Procurement and Canada/Korea Telecommunications Goods Procurement Agreement: 
Departments and Agencies
Goods	$255,800	
Services	$255,800	
Construction	$9,800,000	

North American Free Trade Agreement:  
Departments and Agencies
Goods (Can/U.S.)	$37,500	
Goods (Can/Mexico)	$84,400	
Services	$84,400	
Construction	$10,900,000	

North American Free Trade Agreement: 
Crown Corporations
Goods	$422,200	
Services	$422,200	
Construction	$13,500,000	

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ENQUIRIES 
For further information please contact: Treasury Board Secretariat at (613) 957-2487 or by fax at (613) 952-1381.
La directrice exécutive,
Direction de la politique des acquisitions et de la gestion de projets
Jane Cochran
Executive Director,
Procurement and Project Management Policy Directorate

Distribution/ Diffusion: TB06,TB07, T004, T005, T009, T022, T023, T024, T025, T161