{"id":823033,"date":"2026-07-24T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823033\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:32:38","slug":"canada-ecuador-signing-free-trade-deal-in-ottawa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823033\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, Ecuador signing free trade deal in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, April 24, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld – The Canadian Press <\/p>\n

OTTAWA \u2014 The governments of Canada and Ecuador are signing a free trade deal in Ottawa today. <\/p>\n

Mujtaba Hussain, a spokesperson for International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu, confirmed a signing ceremony is taking place but said there are no public events scheduled. <\/p>\n

Lucero Guti\u00e9rrez, a spokesperson for the Embassy of Ecuador to Canada, said in an email that Ecuador’s minister of production, foreign trade and investment Luis Alberto Jaramillo will be at the signing event. <\/p>\n

Several Canadian organizations and civil society leaders have pushed back against Canada-Ecuador free trade talks and warn that a deal will threaten the environment and worsen a human rights crisis in the South American country. <\/p>\n

Negotiations on the trade pact concluded in early 2025 and the proposed deal would see Ecuador effectively remove tariffs from all Canadian imports. <\/p>\n

The government’s website says bilateral trade between Canada and Ecuador reached almost $2.2 billion in 2025. <\/p>\n

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

-With files from Dylan Robertson <\/p>\n

Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu rises during question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, April 24,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[5049,49,48,17708,287962,287961,1687,56766,287963,20739,157535,944],"class_list":["post-823033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-bilateral-trade","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ecuador","tag-embassy-of-ecuador","tag-governments-of-canada","tag-international-trade","tag-maninder-sidhu","tag-mujtaba-hussain","tag-ottawa","tag-parliament-hill","tag-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}