b'Table 38EFTA internationaltrade agreements Source: EFTA FreeTrade Map Commonwealth country, Canada.28 As ofGulf Cooperation Council and Singapore. February 2019, the national parliaments, andTable 38 shows the extent of EFTAs trade in some cases regional ones, in EU countriesagreements around the world (although an still have to ratify the Trade Agreement withEU-Singapore agreement has now been Canada - currently known as CETA, althoughagreed). terms are agreed and the Agreement entered into force provisionally on 21 SeptemberEFTA member Iceland has a population of 2017.29 Consequently, the UK still has no FTAjust 300,000. Yet Iceland in its own right with Canada, a fellow Commonwealthhas an FTA with China. The EU has no such country. Ironically, the UK had its own Tradeagreement with China. If Iceland were to join Agreement with Canada (based on thethe EUnow highly unlikelyit would then Ottawa Agreements) which we turned ourhave to cancel its FTA with China.30back ontogether with agreements with other Commonwealth countrieswhen theIceland is not the only Europeanbut non- UK joined the then Common Market in 1973.EUcountry to enjoy the advantages of being able to sign its own trade agreements. EFTA also has FTAs with organisations andIn July 2013, Switzerland also signed a Free countries with which the EU does not: theTrade Agreement with China. During 2017,75'