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Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her family home in Vancouver in this May 8, 2019 file photo. (Photo: Reuters/Lindsey Wasson)

Huawei extradition ruling could unleash more Chinese backlash

More punitive trade measures expected

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News May 28, 2020

Ottawa | Reuters — A British Columbia court ruling that could permit the extradition of a senior Huawei executive to the U.S. leaves Canada vulnerable to further retaliation from Beijing, analysts said. Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on Wednesday lost a challenge to a U.S. bid to extradite her to face bank fraud charges,

ICE July 2020 canola with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Extradition ruling not the only anchor on canola

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm May 28, 2020

MarketsFarm — Although ICE July canola finished $1.30 per tonne lower Wednesday, at $463.50, following a ruling on the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, Wayne Palmer said there’s much more to the decline in the price. While Palmer, a trader with Exceed Grain in Winnipeg, called the ruling “a nail in canola’s coffin,” he

Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou leaves B.C. Supreme Court on a lunch break during her extradition hearing in Vancouver on Jan. 22, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Jennifer Gauthier)

Crops

Huawei executive loses key court argument in fight against extradition

By GFM Network News May 27, 2020

Toronto/Vancouver | Reuters — Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou has lost a key aspect of the trial on her extradition to the United States, a Canadian court announced on Wednesday. Meng, a Chinese citizen, was arrested in December 2018 in Vancouver on a warrant issued by U.S. authorities, who accuse her of bank fraud

A once-reliable trading partner is throwing its weight around again.

News, Oilseeds

China decrees dockage reduction

The country has also indicated it will continue its lacklustre buying of canola

By Allan Dawson April 9, 2020

For a few hours last week Canadian farmers thought they were getting back China. In a world grappling with a global pandemic, the return of their biggest canola seed customer was a shot of good news. But the news report saying that was wrong, dashed their hopes. Instead what they got was another turn of

The Chinese government continues to insist the issue of halting canola imports from Canada is a phytosanitary one.

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: One year later, still no traction on canola issue

By Gord Gilmour March 12, 2020

At times Canada’s trade situation brings to mind the one-hit-wonder of the 1970s, Stealers Wheel, and their song “Stuck in the Middle With You.” Instead of clowns to the left and jokers to the right, however, it’s more like canola bans to the east and indifference to the south. As the international geopolitical ground shifts

Dominic Barton. (Video screengrab from McKinsey.com)

Crops, Other

Canada, China both ‘furious’ over Huawei row, envoy says

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News February 5, 2020

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada and China are both “furious” over the case of a Huawei executive detained in Canada in 2018 and its aftermath, but there are signs the two sides can hold constructive talks, the Canadian ambassador to Beijing said Wednesday. Canadian police picked up Huawei Technologies chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on

ICE Futures March 2020 canola with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Don’t expect China to buy if Huawei exec goes free

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 23, 2020

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola traders have been keeping a close eye on this week’s extradition hearings for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver. The hearing is to determine whether Meng will be extradited to the U.S., which requested her arrest by Canadian authorities in December 2018. China, in the wake of that arrest, detained

Other

U.S.-China deal should secure Canadians’ release, Trudeau says

By GFM Network News December 19, 2019

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday that the U.S. government should not finalize a trade deal with China unless the pact also secured the release of two Canadians detained by Beijing. The two men were picked up separately in December 2018, shortly after police in Vancouver held Huawei Technologies

China has boosted its wheat imports from Canada in the wake of the U.S.-China trade war, Ivy Li says. (MarketsFarm photo by Glen Hallick)

Crops, Markets

Grain World: Beijing analyst brings different perspective

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm December 3, 2019

Saskatoon | MarketsFarm — Ivy Li brought a much different perspective about China to the Grain World conference in Saskatoon. Specializing in Chinese agricultural markets, the Beijing-based independent analyst veered away from the usual statements that often cast China as the bad guy on the world stage. Also, Li pointed out, Canada has been doing

Crops

Industry groups hail appointment of new China envoy

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News September 5, 2019

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada has appointed veteran business consultant Dominic Barton as ambassador to China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, as the government grapples with a major diplomatic and trade dispute between the nations. Barton, 56, a Ugandan-born Canadian who stepped down as global managing partner of consulting firm McKinsey and Co.

Daily Network News

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Tag Archives Meng Wanzhou

Huawei extradition ruling could unleash more Chinese backlash

ICE weekly outlook: Extradition ruling not the only anchor on canola

Huawei executive loses key court argument in fight against extradition

China decrees dockage reduction

Editor’s Take: One year later, still no traction on canola issue

Canada, China both ‘furious’ over Huawei row, envoy says

ICE weekly outlook: Don’t expect China to buy if Huawei exec goes free

U.S.-China deal should secure Canadians’ release, Trudeau says

Grain World: Beijing analyst brings different perspective

Industry groups hail appointment of new China envoy

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