The U.S. is placing sanctions on 11 Chinese officials and their allies in Hong Kong, including Chief Executive Carrie Lam, over their roles in curtailing political freedoms in the former U.K. colony, the Treasury Department said Friday.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford urged consumers to shift purchases away from U.S. goods to retaliate against President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian aluminum.

Indian solar power equipment makers located in export promotion zones are holding back expansion plans, worried that a proposed tax on imports may backfire on the very industry it’s supposed to protect.

Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday said Ottawa will be targeting C$3.6 billion ($2.69 billion) in retaliatory tariffs after President Donald Trump said he would hit Canada’s aluminum industry with new duties.

U.K. Trade Secretary Liz Truss says trade negotiations with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi in London were “positive” and both sides aim to reach “formal agreement in principle” by the end of August.

Japan officially lifted any remaining health restrictions on French beef exports to the country, France’s Agriculture Ministry says in a statement on Friday.