{"id":823920,"date":"2026-07-24T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823920\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:32:10","slug":"canada-uae-conclude-negotiations-on-a-free-trade-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823920\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, UAE conclude negotiations on a free-trade agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The governments of Canada and the United Arab Emirates say they have concluded negotiations on a free-trade agreement.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>UAE Minister of Foreign Trade Thani al-Zeyoudi said the agreement was reached in 47 days, which he called \u201crecord time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sidhu said he plans to travel to the UAE with a Canadian trade and investment delegation later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government\u2019s website says bilateral merchandise trade between Canada and the UAE reached $3.4 billion in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 24, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 With files from Elissa Mendes in Toronto<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=vancouver.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778189171_473_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The governments of Canada and the United Arab Emirates say they have concluded negotiations on a free-trade agreement.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,49,48,46,47,44,714,1215],"class_list":["post-823920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-national","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823920","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=823920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}