YAOUNDE, March 27 (Reuters) - The European Union and the

parties to the Comprehensive and ‌Progressive Agreement for

Trans-Pacific Partnership agreed on Friday to move forward with

reaching a "historic" digital trade agreement between both

trading blocs, Canada's trade minister said.

"The concrete resolution from today's conversation was:

let's move forward on digital trade agreement," Maninder Sidhu,

Canada's Minister of International Trade told Reuters.

The EU and parties to the CPTPP - a trade agreement which

comprises 12 countries, including Japan, Britain, Canada,

Mexico, Australia, Malaysia - met on the sidelines of the WTO

ministerial conference in Cameroon on Friday.

"If this comes together, as it hopefully will, this will be

historic. It will be the largest trading agreement in

civilization," Sidhu said.

He said the coming together of the two blocs which together

represent 1.6 billion people and $35 trillion economies would be

significant.

The EU said in a statement that this agreement could serve

as a blueprint "for a region-to-region track of work" in digital

trade.

"An EU-CPTPP Digital Trade Agreement would be an enormous

success. We need to accelerate, as DTAs represent a future-proof

layer of trade agreements," said a EU spokesperson.

The deal would look at e-commerce, data flows and storage,

the minister said, adding that ministers will continue to engage

in further conversations on what the deal could look like.