Britain waiting for Parliament to return before deciding on pursuing Canada-U.K. trade deal

British High Commissioner to Canada Rob Tinline says his government is waiting for the Canadian authorities to afloat return before deciding whether to restart talks connected a imaginable bilateral commercialized woody aft negotiations fell isolated astatine the opening of past year.

When the Canadian authorities is "fully successful place," the U.K. authorities volition request to "work retired whether determination is simply a landing constituent [on a commercialized deal] and whether we privation to prime that up," Tinline said successful an interrogation connected Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday.

"We paused it a small spot implicit a twelvemonth ago because we couldn't spot a landing point," helium added. "Since then, obviously, we've had a wide election, you've had the wide election, and you've got the code from the throne."

In January 2024, the British authorities walked distant from negotiations implicit a longer-term bilateral commercialized woody to regenerate the liberalized commercialized the U.K. enjoyed nether the presumption of Canada's Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the European Union.

Tinline said there was "a acceptable of issues astir agriculture that we request to travel backmost [to] and what the quotas are and what tariffs are connected that."

A large sticking constituent betwixt the 2 sides was however overmuch tariff-free entree U.K. producers should person to the Canadian food market.

After Brexit, an interim statement kept tariff-free British food connected Canadian shelves for 3 years. That much permissive authorities expired astatine the extremity of 2023.

In the aftermath of the renegotiation of the erstwhile North American Free Trade Agreement, which saw changes to supply-managed sectors, then-prime curate Justin Trudeau promised dairy farmers that nary much slices of Canada's home marketplace would beryllium served up to exporters successful aboriginal negotiations.

When asked whether he's optimistic a woody tin beryllium reached, Tinline said his occupation "isn't to beryllium optimistic oregon pessimistic."

"Our occupation is to enactment retired what our objectives are and however we tin instrumentality them forward. As the caller Canadian authorities picks up, past we'll instrumentality guardant that conversation."

On Tuesday, King Charles III volition present the throne code that opens a caller league of Parliament and lays retired the national government's priorities. The King's sojourn volition people the 3rd clip the monarch has work the throne code successful Canada.

Ralph Goodale, Canada's precocious commissioner to the U.K., said the existing commercialized statement betwixt the 2 countries gives each of them "99 per cent tariff-free and quota-free entree to each other's markets."

"So each that remains to beryllium discussed is that remaining 1 per cent," Goodale said successful an interrogation connected Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday.

"Of course, each of the pugnacious issues are successful the remaining 1 per cent, but what we some agreed upon is we'll proceed to enactment astatine that tiny borderline that's left."

Tinline besides said the U.K. is hoping Canada's caller Parliament volition enactment guardant a measure ratifying its accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership truthful it tin commencement enjoying the benefits of the Pacific commercialized deal.

Carney funny successful caller commercialized partners

Prime Minister Mark Carney has signalled aggregate times that he's funny successful strengthening Canada's commercialized relationships astir the satellite arsenic the United States continues to punish the Canadian system with harsh tariffs.

In a missive Carney wrote to his caller cabinet, helium said the national government "must redefine Canada's international, commercial, and information relationships."

The premier curate besides told his Liberal caucus connected Sunday day that the country has "opportunities to physique caller partnerships with reliable allies" due to the fact that "Canada has what the satellite needs. We support the values that the satellite respects."

Almost instantly aft helium became premier curate successful March, Carney travelled to London to conscionable with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to sermon however to fortify Canada's commercialized narration with the U.K.

Goodale said Canada has a long-standing narration with the U.K. that is much than conscionable the system — there's besides "the spot and respect that comes with the promotion and defence of communal values astir the satellite that we've worked connected unneurotic for generations."