{"id":6508,"date":"2025-07-18T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6508\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:04:07","slug":"canadas-steel-import-crackdown-violates-wto-rules-says-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6508\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s steel import crackdown violates WTO rules, says China"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A worker transfers steel cables at a steel factory in Qingdao in east China’s Shandong province on July 16, 2018. Canada’s recent crackdown on imported steel \u201clacks justification in principle, has no legal basis, and will prove ineffective,\u201d says a Chinese embassy spokesperson.The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

The Chinese embassy in Ottawa criticized duties slapped by Canada this week on Chinese imported steel, saying on Friday they violated World Trade Organization rules and disrupted the global trade order.<\/p>\n

The embassy statement, in response to questions from Reuters, followed an agreement between Canada and China in June to improve bilateral ties and take initial steps to rebuild their fraught trade relationship.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a> said on Wednesday that Canada would implement 25 per cent tariffs on steel imports from all countries containing steel melted and poured in China before the end of July.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch practices violate WTO rules, disrupt the international trade order, and damage China\u2019s interests,\u201d a spokesperson at the Chinese embassy said.<\/p>\n

Carney cracks down further on cheap steel imports in bid to protect domestic mills<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Carney is trying to protect the Canadian steel industry, which had complained other countries were dumping cheap steel in Canada as a result of the 50 per cent U.S. tariffs on imported steel imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Canada already had 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from China and this week tried to crack down on Chinese steel that had been further manufactured in other countries.<\/p>\n

China was Canada\u2019s second largest trade partner with C$120-billion ($87.48 billion) of bilateral trade last year, but their ties have frayed.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada\u2019s approach lacks justification in principle, has no legal basis, and will prove ineffective. It will severely undermine normal economic and trade cooperation between China and Canada,\u201d the embassy said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Carney\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Mr. Carney and Chinese Premier Li Qiang agreed last month to restart trade talks.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu told Reuters in an interview on Thursday he was keen for Canadian officials to talk to Chinese counterparts \u201cas soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year Canada imposed 100 per cent tariffs on imports of Chinese electric vehicles, squeezing their sales out of the local market.<\/p>\n

In March, in retaliation, Beijing announced tariffs on over $2.6-billion worth of Canadian agricultural and food products.<\/p>\n

It is conducting an antidumping investigation on Canadian canola and had expected to issue results of the investigation by September. The embassy said the investigation could be extended for six months under special circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Canada cancels its discriminatory tariff measures against China, China\u2019s countermeasures can also be adjusted, suspended or canceled according to procedures,\u201d the embassy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: A worker transfers steel cables at a steel factory in Qingdao in east…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,45,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}