Canada and China will hold “exploratory talks” to gauge the possibility of starting free-trade negotiations, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. Trudeau, speaking Thursday at a joint press conference with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Ottawa, said the two countries have also agreed to a goal of doubling bilateral trade by 2025. “We’ve agreed to launch exploratory talks towards a potential free trade agreement between Canada and China,” Trudeau said. The announcement of exploratory talks follows on the heels of a trip by Trudeau to China billed as an attempt to renew relations between the two countries. Canada and China traded about C$60 billion ($46 billion) worth of goods in 2015. The two countries have also come to a solution on canola imports from Canada through 2020, Trudeau said. China last month had put off plans to impose tougher restrictions on Canadian canola pending a new longer-term agreement. “We’ve found a predictable, science-based and stable solution to ensure access to the Chinese market by Canadian canola exporters through early 2020,” Trudeau said. “This is great news for our Canadian canola farmers.” Canada is the world’s top grower of canola, used to make cooking oil and animal feed, and has become increasingly reliant on sales to China.