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Canadians are in the dark about Ottawa’s finances as they wait for the budget to be unveiled in the fall, but economists say ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is stepping up pressure on trading partners to quickly make new deals before a ...
Canada's finance minister has asked all ministries to find savings, assess spending on programs, cut down on work duplication ...
Ten CFR experts break down what the president's trade agenda has accomplished since he placed a ninety-day pause on his ...
President Donald Trump and his administration are racing to get trade deals done ahead of a self-imposed deadline, at which ...
The combined U. S. trade deficit with USMCA trade partners Mexico and Canada now exceeds the U.S. deficit with China, ...
Helped by volatile gold shipments, the May deficit was down from a record in April and continued to reflect fluctuating ...
Weak demand in the U.S. for Canadian goods and faltering imports by Canadians helped narrow the country's merchandise-trade deficit in May to 5.86 billion Canadian dollars, the equivalent of about ...
The C.D. Howe Institute predicts Ottawa's recently announced spending plans — which include a much bigger defence budget — ...
The EU is Canada’s second-biggest trading partner. Bilateral trade in goods with Canada grew by 65% following the provisional application of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), ...
We are well on track for the largest deficits as a percentage of GDP in the history of the country. And we’re not at war, writes our columnist Jim Hamill.