China announces retaliatory tariffs on some Canadian farm, food products

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 07, 2025 8:34 PM EST | Last Updated: 12 hours ago

China announced tariffs connected Canadian cultivation and nutrient products connected Saturday, retaliating against levies Ottawa introduced successful October connected Chinese-made electrical vehicles, steel and aluminum products.

The tariffs announced by the commerce ministry, to instrumentality effect connected March 20, adhd a caller beforehand to a commercialized warfare mostly driven by U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China and threats of protectionist measures connected different nations.

China volition use a 100 per cent tariff to Canadian rapeseed oil, oil cakes and pea imports, and a 25 per cent work connected Canadian aquatic products and pork, the ministry said successful a statement.

Canada's 100 per cent tariff connected Chinese EVs and 25 per cent levy connected its aluminum and alloy products "seriously interruption World Trade Organization rules, represent a emblematic enactment of protectionism and are discriminatory measures that severely harm China's morganatic rights and interests," the ministry said.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said successful August that Ottawa was imposing the levies to antagonistic what helium called China's intentional state-directed argumentation of over-capacity, pursuing the pb of the United States and European Union, some of which person besides applied import levies to Chinese-made EVs.

China is Canada's second-largest trading partner, trailing acold down the United States.