{"id":824996,"date":"2026-07-25T09:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824996\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:57:09","slug":"canada-uae-conclude-negotiations-on-a-free-trade-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824996\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, UAE conclude negotiations on a free-trade pact"},"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>\u2014 With files from Elissa Mendes in Toronto<\/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":824997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,86829,21312,44,1215],"class_list":["post-824996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-economy","tag-foreign-investment","tag-news","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824996","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=824996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}