I. INTRODUCTION 3

II. AI IN EXISTING TRADE AGREEMENTS AND CANADA’S POSITION 5

  A. AI in Canada’s trade policy 5

  B. The baseline of an “AI trade agenda”: How AI is already addressed in trade agreements and regional frameworks, and how Canada could build on what exists 6

  Table 1 - Provisions related to AI and emerging technologies in select trade agreements, by type of instrument 7

III. DRIVING AN AI TRADE AGENDA IN THE INDO-PACIFIC 10

  A. Driving an AI agenda in the CPTPP 10

  B. Promoting common AI rules in the Indo-Pacific

  C. Champion Indo-Pacific region’s agentic AI agenda 13

IV. CONCLUSION 14