Trade wars: China targets Canada

贸易战:中国瞄准加拿大

World Business Report

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2025-03-21

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China is imposing tariffs on a variety of Canadian products. It follows Canadas tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. Andrew Peach finds out how much debt the world is in ? Plus the International Olympic Committee is about to elect a new President. But does the cost of hosting outweigh the benefits?
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  • This is Andrew Pach with World Business Report on the way.

  • The impact of new tariffs from China on Canada's fishing industry.

  • Our fleets at the moment are tied up because we don't really know what's going to happen.

  • It means that fishermen can't go fishing because there's no one to buy the fish and export it.

  • Well, debt has surged to $25 trillion, according to the OECD.

  • I'll talk to one of its directors.

  • The cost of refinancing all these huge debt that is already out may leave less space for this penny.

  • So that's why, you know, efficiency is important.

  • That's why structural reforms are important, to boost, you know, growth.

  • And as Kirsty Coventry is elected the first woman president of the International Olympic Committee,

  • does hosting the Games still make economic sense?

  • First, a new front has opened up in the tariff trade wars.

  • This time it doesn't involve Donald Trump and the U.S. it's Canada on the receiving from today,

  • China is imposing 25% tariffs on a variety of seafood products in retaliation for Canadian tariffs on electric vehicles.

  • It's part of a package of Chinese tariffs on Canadian agriculture and food products estimated to be worth $256 billion.

  • Analyst Dan Wang is China director of the Eurasia Group in Singapore.

  • There are mainly five items in agricultural goods, and they are rapeseeds,

  • oil cakes, peas, seafood, which are mostly lobster and crabs, also pork.

  • So among all those items, seafood has the highest export value, followed by oil crops and then pork.

  • And why these specific products?