Visas a priority for Czech trade relations

Published November 25, 2009

The travel visas Canada imposed on the Czech Republic last summer are making bilateral trade harder, says the European country's new commercial counsellor. And with Czechs already more familiar with the much larger US market, Ondrej Kovarik has a challenging task convincing people back home to do business with Canada instead.

Mr. Kovarik, who arrived this fall to take up his first overseas posting,...