{"id":943603,"date":"2026-10-23T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943603\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:30:10","slug":"canada-eu-working-on-digital-trade-agreement-ahead-of-summit-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943603\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, EU working on digital trade agreement ahead of summit next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792783810_127_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The flags of Canada and the European Union are shown before Prime Minister Mark Carney&#8217;s address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Justin Tang<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 23, 2026 | 11:08 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Canada and the EU are continuing negotiations on a digital trade agreement that would make it easier for businesses to buy and sell across borders.<\/p>\n<p>International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu was in Ireland on Thursday to push forward negotiations ahead of next week\u2019s Canada-EU Summit in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Sidhu says Canada and the EU are \u201cclosing in on an agreement\u201d to help \u201ccreate less friction\u201d around e-signatures and e-contracts, paperless trade, secure cross-border data flows, duties on electronic transmissions and e-commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Sidhu says Canada exported nearly $15 billion in digital services to the EU in 2024 and there is an opportunity now to grow that further with an agreement in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The flags of Canada and the European Union are shown before Prime Minister Mark Carney&#8217;s address to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-943603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943603","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=943603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}