Trade News

Released by Stats Can:  2019-03-06 Canada’s exports declined 3.8% in December, almost entirely on lower exports of energy products, which were down as a result of falling crude oil prices. Imports were up 1.6%, mainly on higher imports of energy products. As a result, Canada’s [...]

It took Canada 17 months of grinding, teeth-gnashing, often round-the-clock negotiations to hammer out a new trilateral trade deal with the United States and Mexico, but that doesn’t mean Canadian business leaders have warmed to it. Half the executives surveyed for the inaugural FP500/Forum [...]

So far, the U.S. Department of Commerce has excluded about 40 per cent of imports of Chinese steel from facing its 25 per cent tariff. But to date, only two per cent of the total volume of Canadian steel imports to the U.S. has been cleared to dodge the tariff. The head-scratching discrepancy [...]

Released: 2019-01-17 Under the terms of a data sharing agreement, Canada and the United States both use the other country’s import data to produce their export statistics. Both Statistics Canada and the United States Census Bureau (USCB) produce their national import data based on import [...]

Ottawa, December 5, 2018 This customs notice is to inform you of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) that will be implemented in Canada, Australia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore on December 30, 2018. Additionally, the Agreement will enter [...]

Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership takes hold as 6 of 11 countries now ratified U.S. President Donald Trump tried to kill it, but the Trans-Pacific Partnership wouldn’t stay dead. Less than two years after the U.S. withdrew from the landmark Pacific Rim trade deal it [...]

Canada and the U.S. have reached a tentative deal to overhaul the North American free-trade agreement after intensive weekend talks, trading access to Canada’s protected dairy market for the preservation of a key dispute-resolution system and exemption from threatened auto tariffs. President [...]

Montreal, QC — In a warehouse on the outskirts of town, European trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom surveyed rows of boxed-up electric bicycles bound for bike-share systems from Honolulu to Sao Paulo. “I wouldn’t bother with the Netherlands,” she said to PBSC Urban Solutions’ CEO. “Too flat.” [...]

Mexico and the U.S. have agreed to step up talks in hopes of reaching an agreement on major issues by August Burger King trolls Trump over Twitter typo — did it go too far? Five things you should know before starting your work day on Nov. 13 The inside story of how Deciem, the Abnormal […]

ROME (Reuters) – Italy will not ratify the European Union’s free trade agreement with Canada, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Friday, although Canadian officials played down the threat to the accord, which mostly took effect last year. “Soon CETA (the Comprehensive Economic [...]