{"id":935658,"date":"2026-10-16T21:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935658\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:56:16","slug":"canada-india-closer-to-new-economic-pact-following-trade-talks-in-new-delhi-mumbai-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935658\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, India closer to new economic pact following trade talks in New Delhi, Mumbai | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792187776_975_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu, right, and India&#8217;s Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal shake hands before a bilateral meeting in Ottawa, on Monday, May 25, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Justin Tang<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 16, 2026 | 12:10 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu said trade talks between Canada and India advanced over the past week as he led a major trade mission to New Delhi, Bengaluru and Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from his office said the mission included representatives from nearly 300 Canadian businesses and exporters, and resulted in 34 commercial agreements worth almost $300 million.<\/p>\n<p>It said the agreements spanned multiple sectors, including aerospace, clean technology and energy transitions, information and communications technologies, infrastructure, life sciences and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Sidhu\u2019s office also said the minister met with Indian Industry Minister Piyush Goyal in both New Delhi and Mumbai to push forward trade talks. Canada and India are looking to conclude negotiations on a new Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement by the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu, right, and India&#8217;s Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal shake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935659,"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-935658","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\/935658","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=935658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}