A move by the Canadian government to block Pizza Pizza Ltd. and other Canadian restaurant chains from importing low-cost U.S. mozzarella is stoking trade tensions with the United States.
A senior U.S. trade official has bluntly warned Ottawa that the decision could harm its exporters and was made without proper notice or justification.
Canada and the United States are deeply interconnected by history, geography, and our people. We have the largest bilateral trading relationship in the world, with two-way trade in goods and services of over $700 billion in 2012, supporting millions of jobs in each country. Canada and the United States also share the longest common border in the world, touching three oceans.
A special edition of the Canada-U.S. Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC) news update was issued December 18, 2013. This marks the two year anniversary of the release of the Joint Canada-United States Regulatory Cooperation Council Action Plan. These newsletters are prepared periodically to provide you with information on RCC plans, progress being made and other items of interest.
Canada's already troubled trade relationship with the United States is about to take another hit.
A powerful bi-partisan group in the U.S. Congress is accusing Ottawa of unfairly favouring domestic companies when it hands out large IT contracts by citing national security concerns.
The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, today highlighted progress made at a successful meeting with trade ministers from the countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
TPP ministers made good progress in Singapore, identifying potential outcomes for key outstanding areas of the text and agreeing to continue work to conclude market access negotiations.
