{"id":826754,"date":"2026-07-26T07:17:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826754\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:17:34","slug":"canada-ecuador-signing-free-trade-deal-in-ottawa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826754\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, Ecuador signing free trade deal in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 The governments of Canada and Ecuador are signing a free trade deal in Ottawa today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lucero Guti\u00e9rrez, a spokesperson for the Embassy of Ecuador to Canada, said in an email that Ecuador\u2019s minister of production, foreign trade and investment Luis Alberto Jaramillo will be at the signing event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The government\u2019s website says bilateral trade between Canada and Ecuador reached almost $2.2 billion in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from Dylan Robertson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The governments of Canada and Ecuador are signing a free trade deal in Ottawa today. Mujtaba&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[45,49,48,46,47,20739,714],"class_list":["post-826754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-national","tag-ottawa","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826754","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=826754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}