The semi-annual forecast by Export Development Canada reflects the challenges posed by the more isolationist approach to trade of US President Donald Trump’s administration. Canada sends 75 percent of all goods exports to the United States and could be badly hit if Washington walks away from the North American Free Trade Agreement. One way to cushion the potential blow is to set up shop in the United States. EDC said 23 percent of the 1,002 firms surveyed said the uncertainty over NAFTA was having a negative impact.
About one-quarter of those firms, or six percent of all respondents, “indicated that they are moving – or are considering moving – part of their operations inside the US border in response to the elevated uncertainty regarding US trade policy”, EDC said.
Talks to modernize the treaty have so far failed to resolve major differences between the United States on one hand and Canada and Mexico on the other.
The survey of 1,000 firms from Oct. 2 to Oct. 25 found 23 percent of respondents said the NAFTA talks were hitting their Canadian operations.
Published in Daily Times, December 17th 2017.
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