<figure id="attachment_3259221" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3259221" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3259221 size-full" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/6fb77494-afp__20260116__92wa7nu__v1__midres__chinacanadadiplomacy_cropped_1.webp" alt="" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3259221" class="wp-caption-text">The China-Canada trade deal was announced during Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney&#8217;s visit to Beijing this month. (EPA Images pic)</figcaption></figure>
BEIJING: China said today that a preliminary trade deal with Canada &#8220;does not target any third parties&#8221; after the US threatened to impose 100% tariffs on Canadian products if the agreement were finalised.
Under the deal, announced this month, Beijing is expected to reduce tariffs on Canadian canola imports and grant Canadians visa-free travel to China.
However, over the weekend, the US- Canada&#8217;s traditional ally &#8211; threatened to impose 100% tariffs on Canadian products if the deal were to go ahead, saying it would allow China to &#8220;dump goods&#8221;.
China&#8217;s foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said yesterday that the trade deal was not aimed at Washington.
&#8220;China and Canada have established a new type of strategic partnership&#8230; it does not target any third party,&#8221; China&#8217;s foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told a regular press conference.
&#8220;China advocates that nations should approach state-to-state relations with a win-win rather than zero-sum mindset, and through cooperation rather than confrontation,&#8221; he added.
The deal was announced during Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney&#8217;s visit to Beijing this month, as he seeks to distance himself from a volatile US under President Donald Trump.
Canada and the US have been caught in a trade war since the Trump administration imposed import duties on its northern neighbour.
On Sunday, Trump wrote on social media that negotiations between Ottawa and Beijing amounted to China &#8220;successfully and completely taking over the once Great Country of Canada&#8221;.
Following the president&#8217;s comments, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent told US media that &#8220;we can&#8217;t let Canada become an opening that the Chinese pour their cheap goods into the US&#8221;.

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China says Canada deal not aimed at US after tariff threat

The US has threatened 100% tariffs on Canadian products if the China-Canada deal goes ahead, saying it would allow China to ‘dump goods’.

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