{"id":187197,"date":"2025-06-15T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187197\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T20:19:09","slug":"canada-opens-market-to-britain-under-pacific-trade-pact-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187197\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada opens market to Britain under Pacific trade pact \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said: \u201cThe Prime Minister said that the world has changed when it comes to trade and the economy, so he wants teams to go as far and as fast as possible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The task force will also look to make progress on the wider UK-Canada Free Trade Agreement, although a U.K. official told POLITICO &#8220;it\u2019s more of a staging post toward relaunch and whether we think it\u2019s possible to get there within our red lines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the U.K. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/britain-join-asia-pacific-trade-bloc-cptpp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was already a member<\/a> of the CPTPP \u2014 the world&#8217;s fourth-largest free-trade pact, whose members had a combined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfat.gov.au\/trade\/agreements\/in-force\/cptpp\/negotiations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$15.8 trillion in GDP<\/a> in 2024 \u2014 Canada had refused to ratify its membership, preventing Ottawa and London from trading under its rules. Talks between the two sides broke down in January 2024 under the previous U.K. government amid clashes over hormone-fed beef. The breakdown shut British cheesemakers out of the Canadian market and hit U.K. carmakers with an extra 6 percent tariff when the U.K.&#8217;s post-Brexit rollover deal expired.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13118471-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6755670\"  \/>A Downing Street spokesperson said: \u201cThe Prime Minister said that the world has changed when it comes to trade and the economy, so he wants teams to go as far and as fast as possible.\u201d\u00a0| Andy Rain\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Ambassador to the U.K. Ralph Goodale previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/brits-canadian-ambassador-north-america-tariffs\/https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/brits-canadian-ambassador-north-america-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that Britain\u2019s distaste for hormone-treated beef is \u201cnot scientifically justified\u201d and that he doesn\u2019t foresee its \u201ceasily being solved\u201d in talks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu told POLITICO that \u201cCanada has always remained at the negotiating table and we welcome the U.K.\u2019s openness to resume talks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to continued collaboration on advancing a modern and ambitious FTA that delivers real benefits for workers, businesses and consumers in both countries.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Downing Street spokesperson said: \u201cThe Prime Minister said that the world has changed when it comes to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1942,6850,748,943,26259,32,393,4884,807,2129,2441,1144,5111,712,479,1201,6862,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-187197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-beef","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-cptpp","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-keir-starmer","18":"tag-mark-carney","19":"tag-markets","20":"tag-northern-ireland","21":"tag-parliament","22":"tag-scotland","23":"tag-tariffs","24":"tag-trade","25":"tag-trade-agreements","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114689236176779132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}