Canadian Trade Minister to Co-Chair Working Group With China at G20 Meeting

Canada’s Minister of International Trade Chrystia Freeland will meet with business leaders and counterparts at the Group of G20 trade ministers meeting in Shanghai July 6-9, Global Affairs Canada said in a press release on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Canada and China are co-chairing the trade and investment working group at the G20 meeting that has been established in January, according to the statement.

"The minister [Freeland] will hold bilateral discussions with her counterparts and meet with business leaders to advance Canada’s commercial interests and reinforce bilateral ties with that country [China]," the release stated.

China is Canada’s second largest trading partner after the United States.

The G20 is an international forum for the world's 20 biggest economies. Its participants include the United States, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Mexico and the United Kingdom, among others.