Tag: Trade Negotiations
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Brussels has turned a hurriedly negotiated Beijing understanding into what officials describe as a safeguard quota on Chinese hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars, with reports putting the first-year ceiling at 350,000 vehicles from December. EU leaders meet on October 15 to 16 to decide whether it holds, and the two capitals are already describing the…
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Ottawa has sent nearly 300 Canadian companies to Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru in the largest trade delegation to India in more than three decades, betting that a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement can be closed by December and that non-U.S. markets can absorb a share of what tariffs have displaced. NEW DELHI, October 13, 2026 –…
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With Canada-U.S. talks frozen since August, trade experts warn that whatever tariff relief Mexico extracts in a bilateral deal will become the opening term, not the ceiling, of Ottawa’s next negotiation WASHINGTON, October 12, 2026 Washington is preparing for next year’s review of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement with only one of its two partners at…
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Ottawa sends its largest delegation to India in three decades as tariff pressure exposes how little progress Canada has made in reducing its dependence on the American market OTTAWA, October 12, 2026 International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu departed for India on Monday at the head of roughly 300 Canadian business delegates, the largest Canadian trade…
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Carney and Trump speak for the first time since trade talks collapsed, but the call produced energy diplomacy rather than tariff relief, leaving Canadian exporters staring down a January 12 submission deadline with no negotiating table in sight OTTAWA, October 12, 2026 A telephone call between Prime Minister Mark Carney and United States President Donald…
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Washington says it is “holding fast” while Ottawa declines to escalate, leaving Canadian exporters in a frozen tariff regime with no negotiating track and a CUSMA joint review that neither capital has scheduled OTTAWA, October 11, 2026 Canada enters the Thanksgiving long weekend with its most important trade relationship in a state neither government is…
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Sefcovic lands in Beijing with an October ultimatum, a one billion euro a day deficit and almost no leverage he has not already spent BRUSSELS and BEIJING, October 8, 2026 European Union Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic opened two days of talks with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao in Beijing on Thursday, arriving with a deadline…
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Michigan’s Republican Senate nominee has put a call to end the Canada tariff war into a campaign ad, four weeks before the midterms and weeks after he called the tariffs necessary. Canadian exporters are watching the political arithmetic shift. WASHINGTON and OTTAWA, Oct. 8, 2026 The Canada United States tariff war acquired a new and…
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Washington closes its G20 trade presidency with a 28-economy Milwaukee Framework on steel overcapacity, a blocked consensus statement and an open question about whether plurilateral coalitions can substitute for multilateral agreement MILWAUKEE, Oct. 6, 2026 The United States Trade Representative closed the books yesterday on a G20 trade ministerial that produced one durable institutional artifact,…
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The head of the World Trade Organization says the trading system has surprised her by holding together. The number she uses to prove it is also the clearest available measure of how much ground it has lost. GENEVA, October 7, 2026. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has spent much of the past year being asked when the multilateral…