Canada’s International Trade Minister, Maninder Sidhu, is expected to travel to Brasilia later in August.

Brazil is engaged in a “constructive dialogue” with Canada to resume negotiations for a free-trade agreement between South America’s Mercosur bloc and Ottawa, the Brazilian Foreign Trade Secretary said.

Canadian officials are due to visit Brazil in late August, according to Tatiana Prazeres, Brazil’s Foreign Trade Secretary, who shared details of the visit in a written response to Reuters this week. Canada signalled renewed interest in restarting talks with Mercosur last month, as part of a broader push to diversify trade away from the United States amid uncertainty caused by tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump .

Sources from both Canada and Brazil told Reuters that

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