Canada: No timeline for bid to join IPEF; country still ‘fully committed’

Canada, which has long shown interest in joining the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity and maintains it has the broad support of the pact’s members, has no formal timeline for when it might join the negotiations, a government spokesperson tells Inside U.S. Trade. “Canada remains fully committed to joining IPEF as a productive and contributing member,” the spokesperson for the Canadian embassy in Washington, DC, said in an email . “As part of our discussions with the...