China announced a tariff of up to 100 percent on canola, pork and other foods from Canada on Saturday, in response to Canada Decision last August To collect severe taxes on imports of Chinese electric cars, steel and aluminum.
Chinese customs duties, which enter into force on March 20, were a clear warning to Canada – indirectly, in Mexico – did not cooperate with the United States on trade. The Trump administration, such as the Biden Administration before it, was asking Canada and Mexico not to work as a low -cost -expensive background doors to enter the US market under free trade agreements in North America.
The Chinese State Council tariffs committee announced on Saturday that it will impose 100 percent definitions on Canolla, the largest export in Canada to China, on peas, and 25 percent on Canadian pork and seafood. The committee said that the measures were in response to Canada’s definitions of 100 percent on electric cars from China and its 25 percent definitions on Chinese steel and aluminum, which entered into force in October.
“China urges Canada to correct its wrong practices immediately, raise restrictions and eliminate harmful effects.”
The Canadian government did not have an immediate comment.
Chinese agencies were carefully formulated to comply with the rules of the World Trade Organization and did not mention any effort to influence Canada or Mexico during their current discussions with the United States. But the comment issued by the Chinese government television was not clear that the main goal of China praises the officials in Ottawa and the city of Mexico from moving to American pressure for Canadian and Supreme Mexican customs tariffs on Chinese goods.
The Chinese Central TV said the Chinese definitions are “a strong anti -Canada option, and a strong warning for some countries that intend to impose an additional tariff on China in exchange for not imposing an additional tariff on it.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada announced definitions of imports from China last year, in part to protect the heavy investments supported by the government by auto manufacturers in electric car factories in Canada. But there were also increasing fears and complaints from the Biden Administration – recently repeated by the Trump administration – that Chinese goods were flooded in Canada.
Partially due to this flow from China, Canadian steel factories, aluminum producers and other manufacturers are highly dependent on the American market for their sales, taking advantage of fees -free shipments. Canada and Mexico had a sharp increasingly increasingly trade surplus with the United States.
By imposing a tariff on the vast Canola shipments in Canada and other agricultural products to China, Beijing leaders sent a punk reminding that China is also a large market.
Canada has exported $ 3.29 billion in canola, also known as turnip and use in animal feed and cooking, to China last year, which was 13.4 percent of the total exports in Canada to China. Canadian exports rose from turnip seeds to China last fall, where merchants rushed to sell supplies to Chinese stocks before customs duties became valid.
The Chinese government said in late September that it would take up to a year to determine how to respond to Canadian definitions. I decided to act early in President Trump’s 25 percent tariff this week on imports from Canada and Mexico, but then hung it quickly for cars and many other commodities.
China may have a slightly more trade crane with Canada more than Mexico. For each of the Canadian or Mexican goods imported by China, China sells $ 3 of goods to Canada and about $ 5 of goods to Mexico.
China’s exports have multiplied to Mexico since 2019, as Chinese gasoline cars in particular have increased their sales there at the expense of American and European manufacturers with factories in Mexico.
Certainly, China’s behavior on Saturday will rebuild unpleasant memories in Canada about a similar Chinese tariff on Canadian Canadian for a period of two years starting in February 2019. China imposed that the tariff after Canadian authorities have detained Meng and Achto, a major executive of the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, based on an order from the United States.
China also imprisoned two Canadians and then under harsh conditions, while Canada allowed Mrs. Meng to live at Vancouver Palace while waiting for a decision on her legal status. The United States, Canada and China eventually reached an agreement in which the three detainees were allowed to return to their countries of origin, but public opinion in China in Canada was greatly strained during the conflict.
Amy Chang Shen The research contributed.
