From china. This is on top of the most favoured nation tariff of 6. 1 already slapped onto chinese produced evs that are imported into canada. Now, the government also intends to apply a 25 tariff on imports of steel and aluminium products from china. Canadas finance minister, chrystia freeland, says these measures were about protecting domestic producers. The reality is china has an intentional state directed policy of overcapacity and oversupply, designed designed to cripple our own industries. Talk to the steel sector. Talk to the aluminium sector to understand how effective that has already been. We simply will not allow that to happen to our ev sector. The auto tariffs bring canada in line with its southern neighbour. The us introduced 100 tariffs on chinese made evs in may whilst the eu is also imposing higher tariffs. It comes after Us National Security advisorjake sullivan, whos en route to beijing, touted the need for a united front on tariffs when he met Withjustin Trudeau an
Abandoned amid a major spike. Good morning everyone, its wednesday, july 15th. Im michelle griego. And im anne makovec in for len. Halfway through the workweek. And the weather looking pretty similar to yesterday. According to mary lee. Any changes . You know, its going to be maybe slightly warmer for today anne and michelle, but still looking at warm temperatures inland and mild around the bay and cooler along the coast. Heres a live look with our downtown san jose camera with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Right now, in san jose, 58 degrees and looking at 60 in concord and upper 50s for oakland as well as for livermore. As we go through our day, looking at 67 in San Francisco and 72 in oakland and 83 in san jose and 88 for concord. So a degree or two above average for this time of year and were going to warm up as we head through the week into the weekend. Details on that in my full forecast. Now lets check in with gianna and hows the commute for our supercommuters . Yeah, if you
Unprecedented. The nba suspending the season indefinitely. The strange scenes playing out in two different arenas this evening. And his tweet set off a firestorm on social media. Oakland native tom hanks has tested positive for the coronavirus. Now, we begin with that executive order from President Trump. No travelers from europe allowed into the United States. But there are details he didnt mention. This does not apply to u. S. Citizens. Only to foreign nationals. And it does not apply to the united kingdom. Nonetheless, this is a staggering decision that has a lot of people simply confused. Nbc bay areas jean elle joins us at sfo with some answers. Jean. Reporter raj and jessica, some people heard about that president ial announcement while they were here at sfo about to board flights to europe. We talked with travelers who made the splitsecond decision not to go because they werent sure if they would be able to get back. He said dont go. Are you there . I said no, im still in line h
President trump is in the uk meeting allies at a nato summit in london this week. The labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has welcomed the us president with a letter, demanding that he will not push medicine prices up through a post brexit trade deal. Dominating trumps agenda, though, are threats posed by china, including its dominance of 56 telecoms networks. America has warned its allies against using equipment made by chinas huawei, saying the kit could be used by beijing for spying. These concerns stem from a chinese law that requires Domestic Companies to co operate with the government on security matters. Critics saying that this law could compel huawei to be a vehicle for spying. The Company Denies the allegations made by washington. Meanwhile, germanys chancellor Angela Merkel has also sounded a warning, saying europe a key part of nato needs to have a unified policy on the rollout of the next generation sg networks to address espionage concerns. Mike weston is director at advisory s
From day one really has been staying on the sidelines protecting the protesters is now implementing at the station by the authorities to open roads but i must tell you even the security agencies in this country there are divided some are allied with certain political factions and we saw this for ourselves the other day when these i add to riot police were forced to push away supporters of the government some of them used Excessive Force because they did not like the other side while others stayed back refusing to use force so like Muhammad Said sectarianism is very deep in this country people still identify themselves with their sect and people will side with their sect if they feel that theyre coming under attack so this is why this crisis is very dangerous in a country like lebanon in a country which has seen a civil war in a country which has seen. Political crisis every few years so the divide is the the street is divided and it is not clear what is going to happen next ok thank yo