Moe says tensions are high as farmers are ready to start putting seed in the ground
“We’ve had a long and healthy trade relationship with China that at the moment isn’t working to our benefit,” he said Monday“We need to be reciprocal in ensuring that the products that are arriving here from China are receiving exactly reciprocal treatment as our products that are going into China,” he said.
International Trade Minister Jim Carr said Monday that Canada is searching for new Asian customers to take its canola shipments.Story continues below advertisement China has blocked Canadian canola shipments in the last few months and has suspended the licences of two major Canadian exporters. China’s decision to cut off Canadian shipments is widely viewed as an attempt to apply economic pressure on Canada following the December arrest of senior Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver at the request of the United States.
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