“Advisable” for Canada to improve trade relations with China amid US trade war: Finance minister

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As trade tensions with the U.S. persist, Canada's finance minister met with China’s vice-premier Monday to discuss new trade opportunities, and even a mutual “waiver” of tariffs until 2028. Asked if improved relations with China could jeopardize Canada’s trade relationship with the U.S., François-Philippe Champagne shut down the idea. "If one of the pillars is to diversify trade, I would say it's kind of obvious you have to talk to your second largest trading party – which happens to be the second largest economy in the world… I would say it's quite normal and advisable,” Champagne said in a…

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