We paid Native Shoes $403,290 for 26,592 pairs of shoes.
They shipped nothing and kept our money.

We, the undersigned businesses and individuals, ask the Government of Canada to examine the conduct of a Canadian exporter, Native Canada Footwear Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia, toward a foreign customer that paid it in full and in advance.

Sports Inc., a footwear distributor in Karachi, Pakistan, paid Native Canada Footwear Ltd. US$403,290 — the entire price of its Spring 2026 order — before a single carton moved. Native’s factory produced all 26,592 pairs. Native has delivered none of them. It terminated the parties’ agreement on a stated suspicion that it never established, two days after our company accepted a shipping arrangement that Native itself had proposed. It has kept both the money and the goods, it has said it intends to resell the goods, and it has demanded a further US$457,043.17. It has not answered our lawyer’s formal demand for the return of the money.

Canada promotes its exporters abroad. Canadian companies benefit from the Trade Commissioner Service, from Export Development Canada, and from the reputation that Canada has spent decades building as a fair and reliable trading partner. That reputation is a shared national asset, and it is paid for by every Canadian exporter that deals honourably. In our view, conduct of this kind spends down that asset at the expense of the many Canadian businesses that would never treat a customer this way.

Canada is an adherent to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct and maintains a National Contact Point to receive concerns about the conduct of enterprises operating in and from Canada. We ask that this matter be examined through that mechanism, and we note that where a Canadian company does not engage in good faith in that process, Canada’s own published procedures contemplate the withdrawal of Trade Commissioner Service support and of future support from Export Development Canada and the Canadian Commercial Corporation.

We therefore call upon the Government of Canada to: (1) examine this matter through the National Contact Point for Responsible Business Conduct; (2) review whether Native Canada Footwear Ltd. should continue to receive Canadian trade-promotion support, export financing or insurance, trade-mission participation, or the endorsement of Canadian missions abroad while it holds a foreign customer’s money without delivering the goods or returning the money; and (3) make clear to Canadian exporters generally that taking full prepayment from an overseas buyer and delivering nothing is not conduct that Canada is prepared to stand behind.

There is a simple and complete answer to this petition, and it is entirely within Native Canada Footwear Ltd.’s power: return the US$403,290 that it received for goods it never delivered.

We, the undersigned businesses and individuals, ask the Government of the United States to take note of the conduct of a foreign supplier that sells extensively into the American market.

Native Canada Footwear Ltd., of Vancouver, British Columbia, trading as Native Shoes, took US$403,290 from a distributor in Karachi, Pakistan — the full price of its Spring 2026 order, paid in advance. It produced all 26,592 pairs and delivered none of them. It kept the money, kept the goods, said it would resell the goods, and demanded a further US$457,043.17. It has returned nothing, and it has not answered a formal demand from counsel for the return of the money.

Selling into the United States is a privilege, not a right. It is a privilege that should be reserved for companies that deal honestly with their suppliers and their customers alike, wherever in the world those customers happen to be. American retailers who stock this brand, and American consumers who buy it, have a legitimate interest in knowing how it treats a customer who paid it in full and received nothing.

We ask that the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the Department of Commerce, and the Federal Trade Commission take note of this conduct in the exercise of their respective functions; that it be considered in the course of the ongoing review of North American trade arrangements, in which commercial good faith on both sides of the border is properly a subject of discussion; and that United States agencies and trade programmes not extend promotional support, preferred-supplier status, or public endorsement to a foreign company that takes a customer’s money and delivers nothing.

Unless and until Native Canada Footwear Ltd. returns the US$403,290 it holds for goods it never delivered, we do not believe it should enjoy the benefits of the American market it depends on.