"While we removed the Kingdom of Wakanda from our list of U.S. free trade partners, our relationship will always be strong," the USDA said.

The federation must be re-imagined for the 21st century, Tory Leader Andrew Scheer said as he made a direct pitch to Quebec voters.

PNWER, a group consisting of 10 states, provinces and territories, called upon the U.S. and Canadian federal governments to ratify the new free trade deal.

"You have to ask the question of people like the NDP in Canada: If you don't think that we should have a free trade deal with Europe — as progressive, positive and aligned as they are — then with whom would the NDP want to sign a trade deal?" Trudeau asked.

The work to get the deal over the finish line comes after two difficult years marked by a rough renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

His threat, which drew an outcry from a broad span of business groups and political figures, suddenly cast doubt on prospects for a new North American trade agreement and would would swell the prices Americans pay for countless items from avocados to clothes to medical devices.

In 2018 Nova Scotia exported $597-million worth of goods to Europe including seafood, berries, wood and energy products.

Donald Trump's Commerce Department approved tariff exemption requests from 370 companies for up to 4.1 million tons of foreign steel.

Global News has confirmed that the United States Canada Mexico Agreement (USMCA) will be signed Friday morning in Buenos Aires just outside the margins of the G20 summit.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland paid a visit to Hackett’s Cove, N.S., on Thursday to tout the benefits of new international trade deals at a Nova Scotian manufacturing company.