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china strongly opposes canada's unilateral trade restrictions and will launch an anti-discrimination investigation against canada

2024-09-04

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[according to recent reports from china's domestic industry, canada's canola exports to china have increased significantly and are suspected of dumping, reaching us$3.47 billion in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 170%, and prices continue to fall.]

[according to the canadian government announcement, the canadian government plans to impose a 100% additional tax on electric vehicles imported from china from october 1, 2024.]

recently, the canadian government announced restrictive measures such as imposing additional tariffs on electric vehicles, steel and aluminum products imported from china.

according to the ministry of commerce website on september 3, the ministry of commerce spokesperson responded to reporters' questions about canada's trade restrictive measures against china, saying that canada has taken discriminatory unilateral restrictive measures on products imported from china despite opposition and dissuasion from many parties. china is strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposes this and intends to bring canada's relevant practices to the world trade organization (wto) dispute settlement mechanism.

a spokesperson for the ministry of commerce said that china will initiate an "anti-discrimination investigation" into the relevant restrictive measures taken by canada in accordance with article 7 and article 36 of the foreign trade law of the people's republic of china, and will subsequently take corresponding measures against canada based on actual conditions.

the spokesperson of the ministry of commerce also stated that in addition, according to recent reports from china's domestic industries, canada's canola exports to china have increased significantly and are suspected of dumping, reaching us$3.47 billion in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 170%, and prices have continued to fall. affected by canada's unfair competition, china's domestic canola-related industries continue to lose money. china will initiate an anti-dumping investigation on canola imports from canada in accordance with relevant domestic laws and regulations and wto rules. china will also initiate an anti-dumping investigation on relevant canadian chemical products based on applications from domestic industries.