Insights and Stories on Free Trade

U.K. to ask to join Trans-Pacific trading bloc ‘shortly’

Jan. 20, 2021 at 6:36 pm CST

London | Reuters — Britain will soon submit its application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade bloc, trade minister Liz Truss said on Wednesday. Since deciding to leave the European Union, a process it completed at the end of 2020, Britain has been seeking […]

Canada consulting at home toward Indonesia trade deal

Jan. 14, 2021 at 7:38 pm CST

By D.C. Fraser

U.S. throws down CUSMA challenge on Canada’s dairy import limits

Dec. 9, 2020 at 4:50 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Britain, Canada agree on post-Brexit rollover trade deal

Nov. 22, 2020 at 1:31 am CST

By Amran Abocar Kate Holton

Former federal ag minister Don Mazankowski, 85

Oct. 28, 2020 at 7:30 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Dairy farmers press feds on compensation promises, again

Oct. 26, 2020 at 8:27 pm CDT

Canada’s dairy farmers are again calling on the federal government to make good on its promise to compensate producers, after giving up market share of the supply-managed industry to more foreign competitors through trade pacts. The Liberal government, most recently in its Sept. 23 speech from the throne, has told […]

By D.C. Fraser

Canada not benefiting from CETA, Bibeau says

Sep. 25, 2020 at 7:39 pm CDT

Canada is not benefiting from the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union (EU), federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau grants. Expected to spur $1.5 billion in new agri-food exports, the free trade deal has fallen short of those targets since its implementation in 2017. In a letter […]

By D.C. Fraser

New finance minister Freeland no longer to spearhead U.S. relations

Aug. 19, 2020 at 5:09 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Chrystia Freeland will no longer be in charge of spearheading diplomatic relations with the United States now that she is Canada’s new finance minister, three government sources told Reuters Wednesday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had made Freeland his main U.S. go-between when he named her deputy […]

By David Ljunggren Steve Scherer

Canada’s pace in trade talks with U.K. raising frustration

Jul. 22, 2020 at 5:35 am CDT

The Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA) is expressing frustration over the pace at which Canada is engaging the United Kingdom toward a post-Brexit free trade deal. Steve Verheul, assistant deputy minister of trade policy and negotiations at Global Affairs Canada, told a parliamentary committee any deal between the two countries […]

By D.C. Fraser

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit.

CUSMA pact to take effect July 1, USTR says

Apr. 26, 2020 at 12:08 am CDT

Washington | Reuters — U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Friday said he has notified Congress that the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement will take effect on July 1, a month later than initially proposed. In a statement, Lighthizer said both Mexico and Canada had taken measures necessary to comply with […]

By Reuters