Stakeholders push feds to quickly reach transitional U.K. trade deal, as government says new pact ‘close to the finish line’

'Canada cannot risk losing market share to our competitors,' says CAFTA executive director Claire Citeau, after the U.K. and Japan recently concluded a new trade pact.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has maintained that the Brexit transition period won't be extended, which will end coverage of Canada-U.K. trade under CETA at the end of the year.Photograph courtesy of Pippa Fowles/No. 10 Downing Street

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BY NEIL MOSS

November 4, 2020

With Canada's export competitors in the midst of trade negotiations with Britain, stakeholders are urging Canada to quickly finalize a transitional trade agreement with the U.K. Canada-U.K. trade will stop being covered by the Canada-EU trade deal—called the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agree...

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