{"id":836352,"date":"2026-07-30T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836352\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:38:09","slug":"trump-tariff-fallout-canada-to-open-exports-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836352\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tariff fallout: Canada to open exports office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government is opening a new strategic exports office as part of its plan to diversify trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The office, announced in Budget 2025, will be housed under Global Affairs Canada and will be tasked with removing trade irritants, lifting market access barriers and addressing infrastructure gaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The government says the office will help Canada secure international business opportunities in sectors that include aerospace, defence, infrastructure and energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Liberals have set a target of doubling non-U.S. exports over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The government\u2019s spring economic update said non-U.S. goods and services exports increased by $33 billion in 2025 over 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Samantha Lafleur, a spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada, said in an email last week that in the first quarter of this year, non-U.S. exports of goods and services were worth $96.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 30, 2026. <\/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 federal government is opening a new strategic exports office as part of its plan to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,49,48,46,47,44,1215],"class_list":["post-836352","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-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836352","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=836352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}