China Escalates Canada Trade Spat With WTO Suit Over Steel

China deepened a trade saliva with Canada and filed a lawsuit against the World Trade Organization on import restrictions on steel a few days after slapping new tasks in Canada Kanola.

The DTO case targets tariffs and quotas on the steel launched by Canada last month. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said on Friday that these measures are “typical trade protectionism üyor, ignoring China’s legitimate rights and interests and changing the DTO rules.

The Ministry said, “We want to take action immediately to correct Canada, to support the rules based on rules, to support the multilateral trade system and to promote the continuous improvement of China-Canada Economic and Trade Relations,” he said.

Canada, not only steel, but also aluminum and electric vehicles against trade measures after opening trade measures last year’s trade tensions between the two sides rose. On Tuesday, Beijing, in March, put a 100% tariff for canola oil and dinner, and after Canadian Canada seeds announced the front anti-dumping tariffs against canola seeds.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is trying to greatly reduce the amount of imported steel as aid to domestic producers damaged by US President Donald Trump’s taxes in the sector.

Countries without a free trade agreement with Canada-including China-can send half of the year-old volumes and apply to an additional tones of a 50% tariff. China was subjected to 25% more tariffs in all steel “melted and spilled” in China before the end of July.

According to Bloomberg Intelligence, Canada constituted about 0.6% of China’s total steel exports.

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