OTTAWA —
Canada’s commerce minister says she’s disillusioned at a number of the protectionist measures being pushed by the brand new Biden administration in Washington, however she’s not discouraged from partnering along with her nation’s largest buying and selling accomplice to strengthen world monetary establishments.
Mary Ng tells The Canadian Press that disappointment consists of the revival of Purchase American provisions in President Joe Biden’s huge new infrastructure invoice, which creates extra hurdles for overseas corporations to bid on profitable initiatives aimed toward reviving the U.S. economic system after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ng is in Geneva the place she is making her first go to of the COVID-19 pandemic to the seat of the World Commerce Group.
She has taken up the mantle of the Ottawa Group of a couple of dozen international locations that goals to strengthen and reform the battered and much-maligned WTO.
The Ottawa Group was making an attempt to maintain a key WTO dispute decision establishment generally known as the Appellate Physique from being crippled by the previous U.S. administration of Donald Trump that had blocked the American appointment of latest judges to the panel.
The Biden administration has but to nominate new judges so the panel can operate, a delay that has pissed off Canadian companies.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Nov. 12, 2021.
