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
World. Im kim brunhuber. Ahead on cnn newsroom we would enforce the law, close the border and make sure that we had a Legal Immigration system that worked and not let the traffickers control the border. Faith and freedom and border walls, republican president ial hopefuls vie for the support of Evangelical Christians in iowa with. U. S. Autoworkers stand firm in their demands entering a third day of their strike even as some lawmakers announce layoffs. Rescue operations turn into Recovery Missions as the Death Toll Climbs in libya. Well speak to the efforts to provide relief to the most vulnerable. Live from cnn centre, this is ccnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. President ial hopefuls are showing once again the influence iowa shows in the election cycle. Nearly all addressed the faith and Freedom Coalition banquet saturday four months ahead of the first votes being cast in the primary contests. All candidates except for former president donald trump. His absence gave more Breathing Room
It was right on time. Pitch perfect. Thank you. Everyone take note. Yes. Victor is complementing me. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. So great to have you. Im amara walker. Im victor blackwell. Good to be with you. The United Auto Workers is entering the third day of strikes against three automakers, ford, Ge General Mo and stellantis. The union says they remain far apart in terms of a deal on pay increase and benefits. Former president barack obama weighed in on the strike saturday. He called on the Auto Companies to do right by their workers. Hundreds of Union Members walked the picket lines. They say they are prepared to stick it out in order to get an agreement. Cnns gabe cohen is in ohio with more. Reporter victor, amara, saturday we saw the first small signs of any progress in these negotiations between the union and any of the big three automakers. This after the union met with ford. A source with union telling cnn, we had reasonably productive conversations
No one wants a straight, also to go, no one wants a stroke but lowest paid workers rates. They understand the workers frustration of generation and have sacrificed so much to give industry alive and strong especially in this economic crisis and the pandemic. Workers deserve the first share of benefits they help create free enterprise, companies have made Significant Office but i believe should be further than record profits which mean record profits which mean record contracts and also that again. Bracket corporate profits, which they have, should be shared by regular contracts for the uaw and just as we are building an economy in the future, we need labour agreements for the future. It s my hope the can return negotiations before an agreement. Earlier, i spoke to luigi gjokaj, Vice President at a detriot uaw chapter, about the mood among workers now the strike has begun. It is historical course to strike at all three of the big three at the same time. What s the mood like amongst your
Would have seen hunter biden given probation in return for guilty pleas on separate charges collapsed back in july. On separate charges collapsed back injuly. Lets go live to our correspondent in washington. What do we know . ,. , we know . These are incredibly serious charges, we know . These are incredibly serious charges, jail we know . These are incredibly serious charges, jail terms serious charges, jail terms potentially up to 25 years, quite unlikely that will be something that will be reflected in reality but the soul relates to a period of time on the 18th Of October back in 2018 and the 18th Of October back in 2018 and the 23rd Of October stop the reason we have the date range is the first two accounts relate what the prosecution say it was hunter biden making false statements that he knew to be false, they allege that he said he was not biggest of narcotics or addicted to drugs at a time he filled out an official form that said he was. The other charge relates to possessing