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Canada Needs to Look Beyond U.S. to Diversify Trade Relations
By Willy Kruh, The Globe and Mail Sep 29, 2015
The United States has always been Canada’s No. 1 trading partner, so there’s no surprise that executives are nearly unanimous in feeling that it should be Canada’s top priority in opening up two-way trade and investment.
The sentiment is bolstered by a prevailing sense of the United States’ improving economic strength and perceived resurgent growth prospects, as well as its proximity to Canada.
This situation dovetails with initiatives by a number of Canadian exporters to capitalize on long-standing trade relationships by establishing, or re-establishing, U.S. operations. But C-Suite executives need to go further in developing a trade strategy around increasing exports and diversifying markets beyond the United States.
China and India have emerging middle-class consumers that represent a significant component of global consumer growth. China is expected to overtake the United States in 2026 in nominal gross domestic product in U.S. dollar terms, with India moving to third place, according to the latest long-term forecasts of the Economist Intelligence Unit. Canada should be taking advantage of that opportunity).
While the European Union and China remain behind the United States on the list of top trade priorities for the C-Suite, the numbers have shifted over the past two years. The EU is now second and China third.
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