Close X
Saturday, November 30, 2024
ADVT 
National

Canadian Pork And Beef Exports To China To Resume After A Four-Month Suspension

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 05 Nov, 2019 07:42 PM

    OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadian pork and beef exports to China will resume.

     

    China suspended imports in June amid the dispute over Canada's detention of a top executive at the Chinese tech company Huawei.

     

    In September, the Canadian Meat Council said the suspension had cost Canadian farmers cost almost 100 million dollars.

     

    They say the resumption of imports represents an important step for the long-standing trade relationship between the two countries.

     

    In a post on social media, Trudeau called the move good news for farmers.

     

    He thanked Canada's new ambassador to China, Dominic Barton, as well as the meat industry for their work on re-opening the market.

     

    MORE National ARTICLES

    BC Says It's First Province To Implement UN Declaration On Indigenous Rights

    BC Says It's First Province To Implement UN Declaration On Indigenous Rights
    VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says it has introduced legislation that makes it the first province to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

    BC Says It's First Province To Implement UN Declaration On Indigenous Rights

    B.C. Backs Proposal For Liquefied Natural Gas Ship Refuelling Facility

    B.C. Backs Proposal For Liquefied Natural Gas Ship Refuelling Facility
    A proposal to build the first ship-to-ship liquefied natural gas marine refuelling service along the west coast of North America is getting support from the British Columbia government.

    B.C. Backs Proposal For Liquefied Natural Gas Ship Refuelling Facility

    Violent Offender Goes Missing From Vancouver Halfway House

    Vancouver Police are asking for public assistance to locate a federal offender who failed to return to his halfway house last week.

    Violent Offender Goes Missing From Vancouver Halfway House

    Three Charged In Connection With Protest Outside PPC Event In Hamilton

    Three Charged In Connection With Protest Outside PPC Event In Hamilton
    The Al Soufi family was forced to close its Toronto restaurant earlier this month after they said they received hundreds of death threats over their son Alaa Al Soufi's participation in the rally.

    Three Charged In Connection With Protest Outside PPC Event In Hamilton

    Alberta Finance Minister Says First Budget To Attack Spending, Not Services

    EDMONTON - Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews says the first budget of the new United Conservative government will surgically attack spending but not at the expense of essential services.    

    Alberta Finance Minister Says First Budget To Attack Spending, Not Services

    Everything Is Interrelated:' Scientists Write Family Tree For Tree Of Life

    "Everything is interrelated," said the University of Alberta's Gane Wong, one of the paper's dozens of co-authors.

    Everything Is Interrelated:' Scientists Write Family Tree For Tree Of Life