OTTAWA — Two senior Liberal cabinet ministers are off to Beijing next month to co-chair a high-level business conference and to push Canada’s trade interests with China. Carr says Canada and China aren’t embarking on formal free trade talks so, for now, it has nothing to tell its North American partners. If at some stage of the game we enter into a conversation about a full free trade agreement, we will inform our North American partners as we are obliged to do,” said Carr. If Canada does enter into free trade talks with China, it will duly inform the North American partners, he added. Trade experts and analysts support the careful approach Carr is advocating because it gives Canada room to talk to China, without overtly angering the U.S.

Source: National Post October 18, 2018 18:22 UTC