Canadian farmers could receive great success of sudden tariffs of reprisals from China that point to Canola, pork and other food products at the end of this month.
Beijing announced retaliation rates on select imports of Canadian farms in response to Canadian tariffs raised in autumn against electric vehicles made by Chinese, as well as steel and aluminum products.
China is now arriving in Canada with 100 percent tariffs on canola oil and peas, and 25 percent of tariffs in pork and aquatic products, freely reflecting the EV and steel and aluminum gravels of Canada.
Chris Davison, president of the Canola de Canada Council, said that Chinese tariffs are prohibitively high and that the consequences will feel in their industry.
He said that China is a main market for the Canadian canola that represents about $ 5 billion in export value.
“The impacts will be generalized and will feel throughout the industry, starting with the farmers who cultivate the crop every year and extend beyond the companies that provide them seeds and contributions … to the companies and grain processors and, ultimately, with the exporters,” Davison said.
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“We hope to work with the Canadian government very quickly to address the situation we face, but also to seek a resolution in the most expeditious way possible.”
In a joint statement on Saturday night, the Minister of International Trade, Mary NG, the Minister of Agriculture, Lawrence Macaulay, and the Minister of Fishing, Diane Lebouthillier, said they are “deeply disappointed” with the announced tariffs of China.
“Our working farmers and fishermen provide world -class food for international Canadians and international commercial partners,” said their joint statement.
“We are firm in our commitment to defend Canadian workers and we will rely on our support for the farmers and fishermen of Canada's working in the agricultural and fishing sectors.”
Saskatchewan Prime Minister Scott Moe, said in a statement on Saturday that the province's canola industry is being “put in the line of fire due to tariffs in Chinese EVs, which nobody wants, to protect US embers, which few can pay.”
The People's Republic of China massively subsidizes its state -made companies to produce everything from commercial aircraft to electric vehicles, exporting products at prices that are artificially low. Its objective: take the market share of North American and European companies and weaken them.
The new Chinese tariffs against Canadian agricultural products are expected to begin on March 20, expanding the ongoing commercial problems of Canada while the country seeks to reject the detention rates of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
This is not the first time that Beijing goes to the Canadian Canola as part of the hostile trade.
In 2019, the country went to Canola's export licenses as an economically sensitive pressure point, widely seen in Canada as a political response to the detention of the Telecommunications Executive Huawei Meng Wanzhou by Canada at the request of the application of US law.
This Canadian Press report was first published on March 8, 2025.
– With Andrew Mcintosh files, Global News and Associated Press.
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