Canada’s Freeland Hints at Broader Trade Action Against China
- ‘It’s high time for us to be clear-eyed’ on Chinese trade
- Finance minister to speak to business, labor groups next week
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Canada’s finance minister said she’ll hold talks next week with business and labor groups about erecting trade barriers against Chinese-made vehicles — and suggested the government may even go beyond autos.
The government last month announced a public consultation on how to respond to “unfair Chinese trade practices” of electric vehicles. But “the consultation actually could be broader than that,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said in an interview on Friday with Bloomberg News.