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Costa Rica looks to Canada to safeguard rules-based trade, democracy in Latin America
Costa Rica urges Canada to enhance trade ties and support its CPTPP accession to strengthen supply chains and resist superpower pressure, trade minister said.
- On Monday, Costa Rica's trade minister Manuel Tovar Rivera visited Ottawa, urging Canada to deepen economic ties across the Americas to protect rules-based trade and democracy.
- Costa Rica, a country of 5 million, is on track to join the 12-member CPTPP, building on its 2021 OECD accession with Canada's support to uphold rules-based global systems.
- Beijing has threatened to suspend projects after Costa Rica barred China's state-owned Huawei from 5G contracts, citing cybersecurity risks and illustrating the economic coercion Tovar Rivera seeks to counter.
- Citing Prime Minister Mark Carney's Davos speech on rejecting hegemonic powers, Tovar Rivera argued that "we will continue to fail to advance the reform of the WTO if we continue doing business as usual."
- The Canadian Council urged Ottawa last November to seize regional economic potential, aligning with Tovar Rivera's vision for a Canada-Latin American agenda targeting mutual interests in economic development and security.
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Costa Rica looks to Canada to safeguard rules-based trade, democracy in Latin America
OTTAWA - Canada can protect rules-based international trade and resist pressure from superpowers by working more with the Americas, shoring up supply chains and strengthening economic ties, Costa Rica's trade
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