{"id":142834,"date":"2026-07-24T20:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/142834\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:38:18","slug":"canada-uae-conclude-negotiations-on-a-free-trade-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/142834\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, UAE conclude negotiations on a free-trade agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, April 27, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sean Kilpatrick – The Canadian Press <\/p>\n

OTTAWA \u2014 The governments of Canada and the United Arab Emirates say they have concluded negotiations on a free-trade agreement. <\/p>\n

International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu told a press conference in Toronto on Friday that the next steps include legal review, the signing of the deal and ratification. <\/p>\n

UAE Minister of Foreign Trade Thani al-Zeyoudi said the agreement was reached in 47 days, which he called “record time.” <\/p>\n

Sidhu said he plans to travel to the UAE with a Canadian trade and investment delegation later this year. <\/p>\n

The federal government’s website says bilateral merchandise trade between Canada and the UAE reached $3.4 billion in 2024. <\/p>\n

The United Arab Emirates pledged last year to invest around $70 billion in Canada and al-Zeyoudi said he is expecting that announcements about investments will be made soon. <\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 24, 2026. <\/p>\n

\u2014 With files from Elissa Mendes in Toronto <\/p>\n

Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,6409,32931,20001,3203,989],"class_list":["post-142834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-free-trade-agreement","tag-governments-of-canada","tag-maninder-sidhu","tag-parliament-hill","tag-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}