{"id":836368,"date":"2026-07-30T17:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836368\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:46:10","slug":"ottawa-opening-exports-office-as-part-of-strategy-to-diversify-trade-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836368\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa opening exports office as part of strategy to diversify trade | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785433570_196_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu speaks at a press conference in Toronto on Friday, July 24, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sammy Kogan<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 30, 2026 | 9:18 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government is opening a new strategic exports office as part of its plan to diversify trade.<\/p>\n<p>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>The government says the office will help Canada secure international business opportunities in sectors that include aerospace, defence, infrastructure and energy.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals have set a target of doubling non-U.S. exports over the next decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu speaks at a press conference in Toronto on Friday, July 24, 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,20739,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-836368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-ottawa","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836368","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=836368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}