By Makiko Yamazaki <\/p>\n
TOKYO, June 26 (Reuters) – Canada and Japan are working on a range of mining projects, including potential joint stockpiling, \u200cCanada’s trade minister told Reuters, as Japan moves to diversify supplies \u200cof critical minerals and reduce dependence on China. <\/p>\n
Ottawa and Tokyo are in talks on options \u200bfor cooperation including joint mining projects, off-take agreements and stockpiling arrangements for minerals such as graphite and gallium, International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu said in an interview. <\/p>\n
“We’re offering Japan that avenue to do more with Canada in terms \u200cof critical minerals,” he said. <\/p>\n
He \u2060cited as an example of partnership an off-take agreement between Nouveau Monde Graphite and Panasonic for graphite, a key \u2060material for batteries. <\/p>\n
Sidhu is in Tokyo leading Canada’s trade mission, with a delegation of roughly 300 members from nearly 180 companies and organisations – the North American \u200bcountry’s \u200blargest of its kind in the Asia-Pacific. <\/p>\n
Japan, \u200balong with Western governments and \u200cmanufacturers, has been seeking to secure supplies of rare-earth minerals to reduce dependency on China, the world’s dominant rare earths producer and supplier. <\/p>\n
In February, China prohibited exports of so-called dual-use items to 20 Japanese entities, which it said supply Japan’s military. That came after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi \u200cangered Beijing by saying Tokyo would act \u200bin the event of an attack on democratically \u200bgoverned Taiwan, which China \u200bclaims. <\/p>\n
Sidhu’s trip to Japan is also focused on broader energy \u200ccooperation. Among the companies he has \u200bmet so far \u200bis Mitsubishi Corp, which he said is “very interested in doing more in Canada in terms of investments”. <\/p>\n
Mitsubishi is a key investor in the \u200bLNG Canada project in \u200cKitimat, British Columbia, the first major liquefied natural gas facility \u200bin North America with direct access to the Pacific Coast. <\/p>\n
(Reporting by \u200bMakiko Yamazaki; Editing by Christopher Cushing) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO, June 26 (Reuters) – Canada and Japan are working on a range of mining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,95,8411,2454,56766,96317,44,102847,271498],"class_list":["post-762108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-critical-minerals","tag-japan","tag-maninder-sidhu","tag-mitsubishi-corp","tag-news","tag-rare-earth-minerals","tag-trade-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762108","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=762108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}