Share International merchandise trade: Annual review STATCAN – Canada’s reliance on the United States as a trading partner fell even further in 2008, in the wake of declines in the American automobile and housing markets during the economic downturn. In 2008, the United States accounted for less than two-thirds (65.7%) of Canada’s total merchandise trade [...]
Share The Fraser Institute issued a study Canada’s Economic Relations With China yesterday, pointing to the poor performance of Canada in competing in the China market. Since the Fraser Institute is almost like the mirror of policy directions of the Conservatives, does this report mean the Tories are facing increasing pressure to push for better [...]
Share Canada West Foundation has always been a very pro-Conservative organization. It’s interesting to what they urge right now will have any influence on the Tory policies — if the party could hang on to power in the next little while. Bilateral trade and investment agreements with China, Indonesia, and India should have the highest [...]
Share BC Stats release – With the rapid economic growth of countries such as China and India, Asia has become a focal point for exporters looking to expand their marketplace. For British Columbia, Asia has long been an important destination for the province’s commodity exports, with the share of BC’s total goods exports rising above [...]
Share Royal LePage releases latest study on luxurious home sales in the country. In larger cities such as Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Victoria and Montreal, the definition of “luxury homes” are priced at or over $1m. Number of Canadians Embracing Life in the ‘Lap of Luxury’ Rises TORONTO, November 24, 2006 – Canadians are embracing luxury [...]
Share Canada mulls hitching on to Pacific-wide trade bloc if global talks are dead HANOI, Vietnam (CP) – With global trade talks going nowhere, Canada is keen to explore the idea of grouping 21 countries around the Pacific Ocean into a huge free-trade zone that could extend from the United States to China, Australia to [...]
Share China to become No.2 trade power in 2007(Bloomberg.com)Updated: 2006-11-09 20:55 China will probably overtake Germany to become the world’s second-biggest trader next year after the U.S. as the Asian nation’s economy expands and its trade surplus balloons, the World Trade Organization said. U.S. imports exceeded exports by $783 billion last year, equal to 8 [...]
Share BC NDP leader Carole James and three MLAs will visit Taiwan next week as a business/trade mission. They were once scheduled to meet with Taiwan’s vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮), however Lu is too preoccupied with the turmoil of her party and the meeting with James et al has to be cancelled. James said [...]
Share International trade minister David Emerson announced funding of $1.52m for promoting trade with Asia. Vancouver’s service agency SUCCESS has won a total of $1.29m, the biggest one-time funding payment to a single service organization on Asia trade promotion, SUCCESS’s chair Ken Tung said. SUCCESS pioneered the “Gateway to Asia” program in 1992, which helps [...]
Share Canada’s trade minister says our country needs a new trade plan with Asia VANCOUVER (CP) – Canada is losing the war on trade and it’s time to pour some octane into trading resources, International Trade Minister David Emerson said Friday. Emerson told the Asia Pacific Summit meeting Canada is in a trade malaise and [...]
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