writing a news article.

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Write a news article using the correct format of the following sets of information, facts,

quotations, and figures. The article should consist of an appropriate Headline, Lead Paragraph,

and Body (2 Paragraphs). Students are required to use the most important and relevant

information.

 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with the U.S. President Barack Obama and discussed

trade deals between Canada and the U.S. and the future of the Pacific trade pact.

 APEC's 21 member economies account for more than half (59%) of global gross

domestic product and they are home to more than 2,000,000 people.

 The Leaders of APEC discussed economic, trade, and social change.

 President Kuczynski said that, “the world today values human and social development.

Growth by itself is not enough. We have to do more.”. He added, that the APEC meeting

emphasized the points we think are important for the inclusive, sustainable growth of the

Asia-Pacific.

 Following a meeting with outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama, Trudeau said that the

two leaders discussed the softwood lumber trade issue that stems from an expired 2006

export agreement.

 Leaders exchanged views on the state of the regional and global economy and, against

this backdrop, how APEC can promote voluntary reforms in support of free trade and

capital mobility.

 Canada was a founding member of the APEC forum in 1989 and has been active in

helping APEC achieve its current status.

 APEC has twenty-one members and is predominantly concerned with trade and economic

issues, with members engaging with one another as economic entities.

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 Peru President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski opened the 24th Asia-Pacific Economic

Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ meeting.

 Prime Minster Justin Trudeau participated in the APEC Leaders’ meeting in Peru.

 Trudeau said that he looks forward to welcoming Trump to Canada, hopefully soon after

his inauguration in January.

 In 2015, APEC partners accounted for more than eighty-four % of Canada's total

merchandise trade.

 Foreign direct investment from APEC economies in Canada was one and a half million

dollar in 2015.

 During the meeting with Trudeau, Obama said that “the relationship between the United

States and Canada is one of the most important constants in the world and I have no

doubt that that will continue”.

 The Trans-Pacific Partnership would open up trade among twelve nations encompassing

nearly forty per cent of the world's GDP.

 The final declaration from the 21 leaders of Asian and Pacific countries speaks of

keeping borders open to trade and avoiding currency manipulation.

 Trudeau said that “trade deals needed to spread benefits to more Canadians because the

beneficiaries of the pacts over the last 30 years have largely been higher-income earners”.

 During the meeting with Obama, Trudeau added that "the level of integration and inter-

dependence between the Canadian and American economies on many levels, for me is

the strongest proof point that trade has been good for both of our economies and will

continue".

 The APEC Leaders’ meeting was held on Sunday, 20 November 2016 in Lima, Peru.