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Team Canada Trade Mission - Hong Kong and China
a) The motivation for the trade mission to China is quite simple. The Canadian government wants to do business. In 1999, Canadian two-way trade with China was worth $11.5 billion. Canadian two-way trade with Hong Kong equalled $2.4 billion during 1999. The numbers tell the story. China is Canada's fourth-largest trading partner after the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom. The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade says that China, with a population of nearly 1.3 billion people and a Gross Domestic Product of close to $1 trillion US, has become the seventh-largest economy in the world. Hong Kong isn't far behind. Foreign Affairs figures sa...

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