International Trade Minister Mary Ng introduced legislation today to implement Canada's newly signed transitional trade agreement with the United Kingdom — but it's not likely to become law before the government's Dec. 31 deadline.

When Canadian trade negotiators begin talks with the United Kingdom next year on a permanent bilateral trade deal, their hands could be tied when it comes to offering any future dairy, egg or poultry concessions — if Parliament passes a new private member's bill that saw its first hour of debate on Tuesday.

Negotiations between Canada and the United Kingdom to hammer out the terms of their post-Brexit trade deal have concluded, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a video released to the media Saturday morning.

As signs emerge that a transitional trade deal between Canada and the U.K. is imminent, Opposition MPs on the Commons trade committee warned Friday they may not be able to pass implementation legislation in time because the Liberal government let the talks drag on too long.

The Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement is not as profitable as anticipated for Alberta beef producers due to differing health standards between Canada and the European Union.

The Canada-European Union free trade agreement's provisions to protect investors do not breach EU law, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Tuesday, in a major relief for proponents of the deal that came into force in 2017.

Faced with an anxious dairy industry poised to complicate the next federal election for the Liberals — particularly in rural ridings in Quebec and Ontario — the federal Liberals are reviving the previous Conservative government's compensation plan to ease the pain of recent trade agreements.

Canada's trade deal with the European Union dodged another bullet Tuesday when the advocate general for the EU's Court of Justice released legal advice that concluded the deal's investor-state dispute settlement mechanism is compatible with EU law.

While the dairy industry was warning about concessions forced upon Canada in the new North American free trade deal text last week, the federal government quietly awarded Canadian processors almost exclusive rights to import nearly all of the dairy products set to arrive soon from countries like New Zealand under the new Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The European Union's trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom is coming to the defence of Canada's NAFTA negotiator, Chrystia Freeland, after Donald Trump slammed the foreign affairs minister.

Alberta's supply managed farms make up only a small fraction of the province's agriculture sector but there are concerns a reworked trade deal could open the door to more U.S. imports.

As Canada marks the first anniversary of its trade deal with the EU this month, consumers may be wondering why they aren't seeing more European cheese on grocery shelves. The delays are a reminder of how complicated it can get when a trade deal pries open Canada's protected market.