China said on Tuesday it will impose a 73.5 per cent preliminary tariff on imports of Canadian pea starch from July 1, as part of temporary anti-dumping measures after a more than 10-month investigation.
The Ministry of Commerce said its investigation had found that Canadian pea starch was being “dumped” in China, causing “material injury to the domestic industry.”
The probe was launched last August, on the same day China imposed preliminary anti-dumping duties on Canadian canola, escalating a year-long trade dispute that began after Ottawa levied tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports.
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Tuesday’s decision shows that trade tensions remain despite an improvement in relations since January, when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Beijing and reached an initial agreement to sharply lower tariff rates on Canadian canola imports and to suspend duties on some Canadian agricultural products, including a 100 per cent levy on Canadian peas.
“This new tariff proves the Liberals’ trade strategy is a complete disaster,” Conservative critics John Barlow, Stephanie Kusie and Eric Duncan said in a joint statement that took aim at the China deal and accused Carney’s government of letting down farmers.
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“As Conservatives warned, there was no guarantee these trade barriers would be permanently, immediately or completely eliminated. While our pea starch processors face more uncertainty, Canadian agricultural and seafood exporters continue to suffer under persistent Chinese trade barriers on pork, canola, peas and seafood this Liberal government left completely unresolved.”
—With files from Global News
Comment section is so painful to read.
More convinced than ever the whole “polite” and “well educated” reputation about Canadians are nothing but a PR campaign.
When you talk about flip flop, I for one still remember Harper’s “strong” stance on China by boycotting the opening of Beijing Olympic first, realizing that not many people do that around the world, proceed to go and suck up to the Chinese immediately after, thus not really winning any kind of reputation at all.
When people talk about the whole lifting of tariffs for Chinese EVs, do they not remember that it was input by Canada in the first place, and the cons claim it did not go far enough? You make it sound like you are doing the Chinese a favour and somehow they are ungrateful, without realizing that we’ve flip flopped on many things in the past, and expected the Chinese to not react at all, as if we were infallible, and somehow cons keep on telling people that instead of acting smarter, we should flip flop more, act more infallible and self righteous, and down right do what the orange menace is doing down south.
Have you not realized we are in this situation exactly because we’ve blindly followed the US way too much, and it takes time to repair the damage that’s already done?
Wow an actual smart tariff. Who would’ve known that was a thing ?
Like PP and other Cons had a care about farmers over the past year, never said a thing about seafood, canola, etc. Never said a thing about India’s pea tariffs. They were content with seeing the whole agri industry die. Bogus concerns suddenly crop up over starch ppffft.
@Maggie the difference, Canada isn’t dumping anything. They are just bleeding us because we have no other markets
So let me get this straight, Canada is dumping pea’s and pea starch in
China and What does China do? It promptly puts in measures to stop this. China dumps manufactured good like hydraulic cylinders, pumps, valves, machinery into Canada for literally a quarter to half the price and the Canadian government does nothing but protect the steel industry. What happens to all the metal workers in manufacturing????? Approximately 8% of your voters.
@Facts Matter
Is it Elbows up? or Canada Makes America Great Again? I am confused with all the flip flopping day to day.
@Facts Matter
Wow….everything you posted is 100% wrong but there is absolutely no point in trying to change your mind. As a typical liberal, you will never deviate from your cultish devotion to your liberal fantasy despite the obvious evidence of the destruction you’ve caused. However, if you finally do finally wake up and understand the irreversible devastation caused by your liberal voting ritual, please do the right thing, sign up for MAID.
Look at all the clueless conservative crybabies posting on here. PP is a winner, whom has no plan. Never did. All he can do is cry, NEVER offering a solution. Only conservative idiots thought everything was smoothed over with China. Carney knew better and will deal with this when the time is right. With the axis of evil ( Chinna, Russia and Trump’s USA), he has to go slow to ensure he gets it right. Of course PPs MAGAts don’t get it, they never Will. Uneducated zealots is the best way to describe them. Most of Canada agrees with me.
A fine example of an often repeated pattern on Canadian comment boards.
Commenters blame the Conservatives while the Liberals have been in power for well over a decade.
Commenters also have difficulty expressing themselves
in the English Language.
Cue Captain Elbows Up
Not to worry comrades. Who cares about pea starch? Chairman Mark Mao Carnage will make sure we all get our stipend of rice and beans, free showers and mandatory MAID for the dissenters, the educated and the old infirm among us. Hmmm, where have we seen this before?
canada always loses. do we sell anything that people need. do they buy our fertilizer? trump would retaliate thats a fact canada just excepts everything.
So many ignorant liberals blaming the conservatives? What did the conservatives do? What did Harper do? Under Harper we were ranked 5th in the world for quality of life. Where are we know? Please inform me how this is better? I’ll wait. Please use legitimate logic and reasoning, not ad hominem attack rhetoric.
This was a protective measure to prevent flooding of the market in order to make the chain suppliers buy what they need and prevent the market from being saturated by an outside influence this surcharge is necessary… This is really what tariffs are made for…. Its not that they are causing problems one way or the other…. Its to balance the system….
John, Stephanie and Eric. The conservative regime is illiterate. We’re talking about “dumping” . How can you illiterate people blame the Liberals when dumping has been going on since Harper came up with the plan to ” just send it” to make him look like he’s creating jobs. Up yours.
Hey My coffee,
L I b t a r d s have been running SORRY ruining Canada for 15 years and now we’re reeping the benefits of their incompetence.
Canada once again has been caught dumping in foreign countries they see as less than. Remember the Philippines being shipped containers of adult diapers? Canada is just as evil as the states maybe even more so
No no no. Global said China good USA bad. Now I’m confused. Please global tell me what to think
That’s great. Import in even more Chinese EVs. That will fix it.
(Sarcasm)
This article is biased. Global news should be ashamed of themselves to allowing such a slanted article to be posted in their name.
So many negative AI bots on this site!
Canada should immediately halt the EV imports from China
Conservatives fail to mention what a disaster their policies left Canada facing and/or locked into with trade deals.
Criticism is easy when they shift focus on others but never look at themselves for failing to offer anything better either as opposition or when they held the power.
It’ll be nice when their voter base wakes up and sees how they are being manipulated.
Elbows up carney
Who care what the Conservatives say the part of doom and gloom
Carney can’t deliver, can’ get it done. What excuses will he make today.
@NotThatKind, if your really don’t think that the actions of foreign nations are shaped by the actions of our federal government then either you are a liar, you are stupid or you are both (also known as a liberal voter).
Liberal voters are the cause of all of Canadas problems since 2015
Blaming the federal government for a move by a foreign nation. Do better, Conservatives! You all sound like PP – useless.
Canada needs to lower our Chinese EV tariffs to 0%, let them open more police stations in our country, allow their intelligence operatives more access to CSIS, and RCMP fies, and our LPC MPs and PM, to fix this.
So we bring in 49,000 Chinese EV’s to get some relief on Canola Tariffs, but China still had tariffs on Pork seafood and other Items. But the Issue is China #2 Trade Partner bought $23 Billion from Canada (US buys that every 2 Weeks), but Canada buys over $100 Billion from China, a $80 Billion Trade DEFICIT & we don’t retaliate with Tariffs on Chinese IMPORTS!
“@ Peter Toy”
Quit using your Peter as a Toy and work on your grammar instead.
We don’t expect much from the Elbozo Gang ,but at the very least please learn how to structure a sentence
So will Master Negotiator Carney tells us he got the “best” deal with China. Lol
Yet another strikeout by Carney. This guy can’t convert on anything. He is completely useless in my books.
Greg and Peter doing a great job holding opposition MPs to account while licking Carney’s boots. You know, it’s okay to criticize a politician even if you voted for them. In fact, the country would probably be better off.
All the Elbows Strong clowns who were ready to jump into bed with Beijing are suffering from some cognitive dissonance now.
Well done Carney, lol
So, it takes 3 clown con mps to comment (aka LIE) about this issue. Just like the bad joke, how many persons it take to change a light bulb. The Federal government does not set the prices.
Conservatives are huge USA lapdog a for many years and they will never change. Conservatives will say nothing, if USA will impose 200% tariffs on Canada, but they will criticize China for a lot less tariffs on Canada. in addition, Canada started first impose tariffs on China.
Let’s ban their cars then.
Another failure by Carney. They are stacking up quite high now. Carney cat pull the trigger on anything
Just as EBY lands in Beijing and its
“Bada Bing,Bada Boom” here’s a 74% tariff for you and conman Carney paved the way “Elbows up”
FAW-Q CON GOOFS. WE WON.
MAJORITY GOVERNMENT WIN!!!!!!
ENOUGH SAID.
What the hell! Thats is I am not buying from China anymore (except for my phone, car, dildoes and lube ) First it was Orange man no Slant man bad too.
@ Artificial I: good moniker.
Are you being willfully ignorant?
Those Evs were traded straight up for Scott Moe’s canola oil that he couldn’t move.
Good swap as it turned out.
What is this urine actually used for ?
Wait we get chinese EV’s and no tariffs, but Canada gets a 73.5 of pea starch import tariff, why don’t we just sell Canada to China for a loonie while we are at it.
Carney is a total laughing stock. LMFAO
Oh, you’re all so clever, you commenter’s. You wouldn’t know your ass from a hole in the ground.
LMAO at carney
All you elbows down butts up fanatics in the electorate… why is your hatred of America so strong that you thought aligning with a regime so evil its murdered over 80,000,000 of her own citizens, would be a good idea.
Oh wait. Maybe its the Liberal leftist elites, and the boomerwaffen, who profit from those communists using our housing market as a way to launder their money and get access to Canadian currency.
Pants down elbows up… that’s the way Carney & Canada likes to get fcuked! The best CUNTry in the G7.
There you go Elbozo’s China is starting the flexing of their tariff muscles now that they know Carney is such a pushover and can’t even get a deal with our biggest trading partner the USA. So China knows they have Carney over a barrel and are starting to tighten the screws to get more influence and power in Canada. It is China’s MO using their belt and road initiative. Get a country to rely on you then use that reliance to take control. Much more to come from China under Carney. Don’t say you weren’t warned Canada.
Elbows up you suckered that voted for this queer skidmark Trudeaus advisor lol
China is so better a trade partner than the USA, right elbows?
Remember, we are kissing a dictators as$ to protect milk which accounts for 0.68% of our GDP.
Right? We could just let Canadians decide what milk tastes better, possibly making a small number slightly smaller, or this.
Ban trade with China, and arrest Eby and Carney.
Carneys elbows are being shoved up his ass, one by trump the other by xi.
China taking Carney out to the woodshed for a spanking, just like Trump is doing. When does Carny’s elbows come up?