New Occasional Paper by Shaoyan Sun

This paper takes an in-depth look at China's canola ban

Shaoyan Sun - 14 October 2020

This Occasional Paper by Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Shaoyan Sun, provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of China’s ban on Canadian canola, which was announced in March 2019 and has remained unresolved. 

Over the year and a half, the canola trade dispute between Canada and China has shown no signs of easing but accumulating uncertainties due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and the deteriorating trade relations driven by a suspension of Canada-China free trade talks. In these circumstances, Shaoyan Sun’s research elaborates on the trade situations between the two countries in detail, using canola as a representative case. Dr. Sun has determined that the decline in Canada’s canola exports to China is not motivated by politics alone, and that the causes behind the canola ban need to be explored at deeper level.

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