India Hopes for Early-Stage Trade Deal with Canada This Year

India’s commerce minister says it’s “not beyond the realm of possibility” that an early-stage trade deal could be signed with Canada by the end of this year, adding “I do wish it’s much faster than that.”

• Piyush Goyal made the remarks Wednesday during a roundtable with journalists after a speech attended by Canadian Trade Minister Mary Ng in Toronto. “I’ve always been optimistic about whatever I’ve done in my life and generally turned out successful,” he said. “So make what you make with that”
• Canada has had intermittent trade negotiations with India going back more than a decade, but last ...