{UAH} China imposes retaliatory tariffs on Canadian farm and food products

Friends

 

It gets very interesting when Trump’s decision makes so much noise, there are countries that believed that they have a right to impose tariffs on other countries as a right, and Canada has been a very good country at that. You see a tariff is a good tax collection, you get hard cash from the treasury department of the other country, unlike what Gwokto states, that you wait for the units to be sold and collect pieces of money from the sales. Canada has actually been collecting tariffs from United States on several items, only that Trump wants those tariffs to end, or he will demand for a retaliatory tariff.

 

What you did not know is that Canada has been collecting tariffs from China for a very long time, and China has been paying up. I repeat myself to clarify to Gwokto. Those tariffs did not affect your prices for they were being covered by the Chinese treasury directly to the Canadian treasury, and the items kept on coming to Canada and you kept on paying the normal prices. The Chinese government swallowed the tariffs.

 

Now that Trump wants a retaliatory tariff, China wants to know why it does not demand a retaliatory tariff rom Canada. And here we are, so they are asking for it. Now our treasury has to cut the same cheque as the one China is cutting.  At a certain point we all are going to see the point Trump is making, and we are going to stop asking for tariffs from each other. What is silly is that countries like Canada get these bulky monies and use them for stupid programs, instead of investing it into roads and infrastructure they invest it into environment protection, thus just blow it up into smokes.

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China imposes retaliatory tariffs on Canadian farm and food products

This Dec. 5, 2017, photo shows flags of Canada and China prior to a meeting of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Fred Dufour, Pool Photo

By Simina Mistreanu, The Associated Press

Posted March 7, 2025 10:33 pm.

Last Updated March 7, 2025 10:55 pm.

BEIJING (AP) — China on Saturday announced retaliatory tariffs on some Canadian farm and food imports, after Canada imposed duties in October on Chinese-made electric vehicles and steel and aluminum products.

The new duties become effective March 20, according to a statement by the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council. Additional 100% tariffs will be imposed on Canadian rapeseed oil, oil cakes and peas, and additional 25% tariffs will apply to pork and aquatic products.

The tariffs add to global trade tensions already high, with rounds of tariff announcements by the United States, China, Canada and Mexico.

The duties come in retaliation for Ottawa imposing tariffs against Chinese imports in October, including a 100% surtax on all Chinese-made EVs and 25% on steel and aluminum imports.

“Despite China’s repeated opposition and dissuasion, Canada has taken unilateral restrictive measures on electric vehicles, steel, aluminum and other products imported from China without investigation, undermining China-Canada economic and trade relations,” read the statement by the customs authorities.

The decision to impose retaliatory duties comes after an “anti-discrimination probe, which found out that Canada’s restrictive measures against some Chinese products have disrupted normal trade order and harmed the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises,” it added.

Canada announced tariffs on Chinese goods last August following similar duties being imposed by the U.S. and the European Union against Chinese-made EVs and other products. The Western governments say China’s subsidies give its industry an unfair advantage.

Simina Mistreanu, The Associated Press

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