Insights and Stories on Canada

Brazil beef scandal leaves fewer options for global buyers

Mar. 20, 2017 at 9:03 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Global beef buyers will likely need to cobble together supplies from several nations if a scandal persists in Brazil’s meat sector because supply constraints and politics are already limiting trade flows, market analysts said Monday. China suspended imports of all meat products from Brazil, the world’s […]

Key European body backs EU-Canada trade deal

Jan. 24, 2017 at 2:56 pm CST

By philip-blenkinsop

Canada says TPP trade deal dead without U.S.

Jan. 24, 2017 at 2:19 pm CST

By David Ljunggren

EU-Canada trade deal clears further hurdles in Europe

Jan. 12, 2017 at 8:21 pm CST

By Reuters

Canada keen to boost ties, seal trade pact with India

Jan. 11, 2017 at 7:40 pm CST

By Euan Rocha

Marijuana firms look to get creative with brand building

Dec. 16, 2016 at 5:28 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian marijuana companies, facing potential limits on advertising for recreational pot, are selling health food products and cultivating a lifestyle image to win customers in an anticipated multibillion dollar market. Canada is set to become the first G7 country to legalize recreational marijuana nationally when it […]

By Leah Schnurr

German activists take EU-Canada trade deal to Constitutional Court

Aug. 31, 2016 at 8:57 pm CDT

Berlin | Reuters — Activists delivered what they said was Germany’s biggest-ever public complaint to the Constitutional Court on Wednesday, hoping it will scupper a trade agreement between the European Union and Canada. The deal, which some see as a template for an EU-U.S. agreement still being negotiated, is the […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans weighed down by big harvest prospects

Aug. 24, 2016 at 4:22 pm CDT

Reuters — U.S. soybeans and grains dipped on Wednesday, weighed down by abundant harvest prospects in key countries. Soybeans led the way lower, as the closely watched four-day Pro Farmer U.S. Midwest Crop Tour scouted impressive crops in central Illinois, following its observation a day earlier of above-average soybean pod […]

By Rod Nickel

Canada presses China on science in canola trade spat

Mar. 10, 2016 at 5:12 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada is urging the Chinese government to stick to scientific facts in decisions on trade as Beijing plans to toughen its standard on Canadian canola shipments, federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay said Thursday. China’s quarantine authority, AQSIQ, notified the Canadian Food Inspection Agency last month that […]

By Rod Nickel

Canada, EU finally settle trade deal after opposition

Feb. 29, 2016 at 5:42 pm CST

Ottawa/Brussels | Reuters — The European Union has convinced Canada to include a new way of settling investor claims in their trade deal, making it more likely that it will be passed and putting the U.S. under pressure to accept the same terms. The two sides wrapped up negotiations on […]

By David Ljunggren philip-blenkinsop