Work continues on developing a free trade zone among Atlantic Canadian provinces, according to New Brunswick’s premier.
During her weekly tariff update on Thursday, Susan Holt said she hopes to be able to share more news “in the coming days.”
“We do a lot of trade with each other, and I’m looking forward to confirming that those trade barriers are coming down between our provinces in the near future,” said Holt.
This comes just one day after New Brunswick signed a memorandum of understanding with Ontario to reduce trade and labour mobility barriers.
Holt was asked by a reporter what hurdles remain to getting the free trade zone in place with Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.
“Thankfully, we all agree on things like labour mobility. We all agree on the need for goods and services to be able to move freely with consistent, mutually recognized labelling and inspection,” said the premier.
“We just need to look at some of those specific nuances to our economies and to the products and the resources that we manage and figure out what we all agree is in together and out together and then get everything else harmonized.”
The idea of an Atlantic free trade zone was first pitched by Holt about a month ago.
