Canada Seeks Southeast Asia Trade Deal to Blunt Trump Tariffs
'We are diversifying and we are establishing those trade relationships,' Anita Anand, who has been Canada's foreign minister since May, told Bloomberg TV Thursday on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Kuala Lumpur. 'We are currently negotiating with Asean a free trade agreement, and we look forward to the conclusion of those negotiations.'
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