Canada and the United States are at an impasse in their tariff negotiations. On July 10, US President Trump announced that starting August 1, he would impose a 35% tariff on all Canadian goods, warning Canada not to retaliate, or else it would face even higher tariffs.

Evidently, the inability of the US and Canada to reach an agreement on tariffs has placed immense pressure on Canada's newly appointed Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. However, what we did not expect is that Canada turned around and took a hard stance against us.

On June 27, Canada, despite our strong opposition, cited so-called "national security" reasons to order Hikvision Canada Limited to cease operations in Canada and shut down its business there.

Subsequently, Canada again targeted us. On July 16, Prime Minister Trudeau announced that Canada would limit steel imports from countries that have not signed a free trade agreement with Canada to half of the 2024 level, and any excess would be subject to a 50% tariff.

In addition, Canada will impose an additional 25% tariff on steel products from all countries outside the United States, including steel produced in China.

Evidently, to protect Canada's steel manufacturing industry, Canada first set a cap on steel imports, then added another layer of tariffs to block our steel products from entering the Canadian market.

Furthermore, based on Canada's actions, it is clearly targeting us. We are the world's largest steel producer, and Canada specifically targets us, excluding the United States, by imposing taxes, which is obviously taking us as a target to please the United States. Canada's approach is disheartening.

In fact, since Canada's new Prime Minister Trudeau took office, we hoped to use this opportunity to repair the Sino-Canadian relationship that was damaged by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. On July 11, when Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Canadian Foreign Minister Anand, Wang Yi stated that this year marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Canada and the 20th anniversary of the establishment of a strategic partnership. He hopes Canada will objectively and rationally view China and strengthen cooperation.

Before that, as a gesture of goodwill toward Canada, we began to import large amounts of Canadian crude oil from March. At that time, our crude oil imports from Canada surged to 7.3 million barrels, reaching an unprecedented level, while over the past decade, Canada's average daily oil exports to China were about 7,000 barrels.

But we did not expect that, in response to our positive gestures, Canada would take two steps against us, moving backward in Sino-Canadian relations. Evidently, one of the prerequisites for international relations is reciprocity. We gave them a warm face, but Canada responded coldly, and we certainly will not continue to encourage Canada to improve relations with China.

Meanwhile, as Canada showed strength against us, we also made a move. On July 17, during Australian Prime Minister Albanese's visit to China, two Australian agricultural industry sources revealed that Australia is about to reach an agreement with China allowing Australian suppliers to trial transport five batches of canola seeds to China.

If the framework agreement is reached, Australian suppliers will trial transport five batches of canola seeds to China, totaling approximately 150,000 to 250,000 tons. Obviously, this news has excited Australia greatly.

In fact, Australia has long wanted to export canola seeds to China. China is the world's largest importer of canola seeds, with an annual import volume of up to 4 million tons. However, due to excessive impurities and pathogens in Australian canola seeds, China banned the import of Australian canola seeds in 2020.

This time, our relaxation on the issue of canola seed imports is both a response to Australia's active efforts to develop economic and trade relations with us, and of course, it is also a warning to Canada.

Because we have always imported Canadian canola seeds, and Canada is the world's largest canola seed exporter, Canada certainly values the Chinese market. However, the previous Trudeau government last year deliberately imposed a 100% tariff on our new energy vehicles, damaging Sino-China economic and trade relations. We finally accurately chose to impose tariffs on Canadian canola seeds, as a response to Canada's malicious actions.

Now we have handed the big contract that Canada wanted to Australia, which is obviously telling Canada that if it damages our interests and disrupts Sino-Canadian economic and trade relations, Canada will suffer real losses, and Canada will watch helplessly as Australia takes over the market share it wants.

If Canada does not turn back and continues with other malicious acts, we cannot rule out reducing our oil imports from Canada and taking other countermeasures. It's up to Canada to think carefully about its choices.

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