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TCI Energy Brief

Early TMX Pipeline Expansion Data Reveals China’s Emerging Role as a Significant Buyer of Canadian Crude, Offering Some Diversification From the U.S. Market

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Canada-China Trade: Q2 2024
Canada-China Trade: Q2 2024

Despite Canada and China each continuing to face their respective economic headwinds, trade between the two has, on the whole, remained stable in this first half of 2024. 

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If Canada chooses to engage in activist trade policy, it should make sure it does so strategically

The imposition of a 100 percent tariff on Chinese EVs may be a missed opportunity to better grow and protect Canadian industry.

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Balancing Challenge with Opportunity: Assessing the Economic Impact of China's Potential CPTPP Membership on Canada and Beyond

This report evaluates the economic impacts of China’s potential accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), focusing on Canada’s trade interests.

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The Latest

  • April 29, 2025

    The U.S.-China relationship has experienced a well-documented downward spiral since approximately 2017, marked by rising tensions and conflicts across various domains. While some studies attribute this prolonged tension to a widening divergence in national interests, political ideologies, and government systems, a significant yet often overlooked factor is the convergence of their emotional states.

  • April 23, 2025

    The 5.4 percent year-over-year growth reported beat the expectations of the Chief Economists surveyed by the Yicai Research Institute (5.1 percent)

  • April 9, 2025

    Mark Kruger's slides for his presentation at the China Crossroads lecture series discussing the context of the US’s tariffs, their effects on the Canadian economy, what policymakers can do to mitigate them, playing the China card and other related topics.

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In the Media

  • April 30, 2025

    ‘Almost certain’ that electoral victory led by Prime Minister Mark Carney will prompt review of Ottawa’s commercial relations with Beijing - Philippe Rheault speaks with SCMP

  • April 29, 2025

    Philippe Rheault is interviewed on CBC Radio Active: Canada's relationship with China has been bumpy, to say the least, over the last few years, but with our neighbours to the south instigating a full-on trade war, maybe that relationship with China could change.

  • April 22, 2025

    Director Philippe Rheault and Senior Fellow Guy Saint-Jacques are quoted in "Le Journal de Montréal"

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