Following a recent meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a report released Tuesday finds Americans are increasingly confident regarding trade with Canada, despite growing skepticism of trade with other countries.
Research from the Chicago Council of Global Affairs found approximately 80 percent of Americans view trade with their northern neighbors as being "fair." Contrastingly, 41 percent of respondents in the same study referred to trade with Mexico under the same light, and only 29 percent listed trade with China as "fair."
"The sell is Canada. Not NAFTA, not globalization, not formal trade pacts," said Marc L. Busch, author of the publication, in a statement. "When the U.S. public rallies around free trade, it rallies around free trade with Canada. Ottawa and Washington have to spend more time talking about the relationship as Canada-U.S. trade."
Meanwhile, Canada has been aiming to bolster its trade ties with emerging economies such as China and India, recently striking a deal with Beijing to double trade between the two nations by 2015.
Additionally, Canadian representatives vowed last month to triple the country's business presence in India over the next five years.
