{"id":16210,"date":"2018-12-15T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=16210"},"modified":"2018-12-14T18:49:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T18:49:29","slug":"us-china-trade-war-affect-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/opinion\/us-china-trade-war-affect-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"How a US-China Trade War Would Affect Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Analysts say that a US-China trade battle could boost the fortunes of Canadian retailers.<\/em><\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Experts believe that US President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to impose import tariffs on up to US$60 billion of Chinese goods could help Canadian retailers.<\/p>\n<p>The Retail Council of Canada says that the plan to raise the price of Chinese goods, such as electronics, sold in the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/2018\/03\/23\/trumps-plan-to-impose-tariffs-on-chinese-imports-could-help-canadian-retailers.html\">could prompt more Canadians to shop at home<\/a> while the president of the Canadian Association of Importers and Exporters, Joy Nott, thinks higher prices for goods <a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/pmn\/commodities-business-pmn\/agriculture-commodities-business-pmn\/canadian-retailers-could-be-helped-by-a-u-s-trade-battle-with-china\">could also encourage more Americans to cross the border<\/a> and shop in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>She says Canadian products that are similar to Chinese goods could also be substituted by American buyers.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government announced a $3 billion list of US goods for possible retaliation a day after President Trump outlined the $60 billion worth of tariffs on China.<\/p>\n<p>A detailed list of products is expected to be developed in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Further retaliation by China could open the door for an increase in Canadian exports to replace higher priced American goods, particularly in agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Nott also makes the argument that such benefits could be offset by a negative impact on Canada if the economy of the US &#8211; its largest trading partner &#8211; is hurt by a trade dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianbusiness.com\/business-news\/canadian-retailers-could-be-helped-by-a-u-s-trade-battle-with-china\/\">told The Canadian Press<\/a> that a bigger problem would be an escalation of the dispute into a full blown trade war that causes a slowdown in global economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>As a nation that depends on exports of commodities, he said that weaker demand could hurt the Canadian economy in the long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say that a US-China trade battle could boost the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":16211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[529,894,290],"class_list":["post-16210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-canada","tag-how-a-us-china-trade-war","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16212,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16210\/revisions\/16212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}