{"id":23016,"date":"2025-08-13T10:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23016"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:04:48","slug":"grain-canola-at-war-after-chinas-75-6-temporary-tariffs-on-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/08\/13\/grain-canola-at-war-after-chinas-75-6-temporary-tariffs-on-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Grain canola at war after China\u2019s 75.6% temporary tariffs on Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>China temporarily imposed 75.6% duty on grain canola imports from Canada on August 12, 2025, effective two days later. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now on its second leg, the tiff began in March 2025 with&nbsp;<a href=\" www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/03\/10\/canola-from-canada-under-crossfire-from-10\"><u>100% levy<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;on canola oil and meal imports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest action will impact the world\u2019s top importer of rapeseed, which China almost exclusively buys from Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beijing justifies cites a need to cushion domestic oilseed growers from uncompetitive&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/insights\/prices\/china\/rapeseeds-canola\/\"><u>rapeseed prices<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;due to import \u201cdumping.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it is central and western Canada\u2019s farmers in Manitoba and Alberta, respectively, who will bear the brunt of tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to farmer John Guelly from Alberta via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11331404\/trade-war-with-china-impact-canadian-canola-farmers\/\"><u>Global News<\/u><\/a>, canola represents around 15% of the national agricultural sales income. It brings a yearly production value of C$12 billion ($8.72 billion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manitoba\u2019s farmer Ryan Hofford in his part expects price decrements by C$50 ($36.33) an acre or C$30 ($21.8) a tonne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to rise in input costs such as fertilizers, Hofford\u2019s estimated 50-dollar loss will directly impact his profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily for him, he won\u2019t see meteoric losses because he always pre-calculates production costs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-goes-around-comes-round\"><strong>What goes Around Comes Round<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Many see this as retaliation for the 100% electric vehicle (EV) tariff that Ottawa hit Beijing with in October 2024.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversely, analysts in Canada find that vehicle, steel and aluminium industries combined are smaller than the standalone canola sector.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Scott Moe, premier of central Canada\u2019s Saskatchewan province, the national canola industry is worth C$43-45 billion ($31.24-32.7 billion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So big is the sector that it has attracted defence from the ground up. One such is Alberta\u2019s farmer Ian Chitwood, who told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.citynews.ca\/2025\/08\/12\/alberta-farmers-china-canola-tariffs\/\"><u>Calgary News<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;of the unfairness of paying the price for auto protectionism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the tariffs are temporary as they stand, they have created worry across the grain canola sector. Farmers now want the government to intervene and broker the peace with Beijing at once. The statistics below imply the growers\u2019 plight, for the oriental nation is their biggest export zone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-canada-china-seed-grain-canola-trade-statistics\"><strong>Canada-China Seed\/Grain Canola Trade&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Statistics&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada\u2019s canola industry boasts in the excess of 21 million acres a year, the second highest of any crop. This vast acreage grows a crop that earns farmers some C$12.9 billion ($15.91 billion) from canola seed alone, as of 2024. In 2024, China led canola seed imports from Ottawa at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miragenews.com\/chinas-anti-dumping-move-on-canadian-canola-1513976\/\"><u>5.9 million tonnes<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;worth around C$4 billion ($2.91 billion). They represented 67% of all export volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The below data, courtesy of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canolacouncil.org\/markets-stats\/exports\/\"><u>Canola Council<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;gives a peek at annual exports of seed\/grain canola into the China market:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Canola&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>seed<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;export volumes to China [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Total&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>canola seed e<\/strong><strong>xports to the&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>w<\/strong><strong>orld [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2024<\/td><td>5.863&nbsp;million<\/td><td>8.659&nbsp;million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2023<\/td><td>4.594&nbsp;million<\/td><td>7.087&nbsp;million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>2.168&nbsp;million<\/td><td>5.664&nbsp;million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>2.252&nbsp;million<\/td><td>8.251&nbsp;million<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig:&nbsp;<em>Canada\u2019s canola seed exports to China, 2021-24<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;much canola oil does Canada export to China?<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada exports around C$5 billion ($3.02 billion) in canola oil a year to China, as of 2023, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oec.world\/en\/profile\/bilateral-product\/rapeseed-oil\/reporter\/can%20\/l%20:~:text=The%20main%20destination%20of%20Rapeseed%20Oil%20exports%20from,China%20($150M),%20South%20Korea%20($49.4M),%20and%20Japan%20($12.6M).\"><u>OEC<\/u><\/a>. This amount is only beaten by the United States and Mexico.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do<\/strong><strong>es China buy canola meal from Canada<\/strong>?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data by the Canola Council shows China buys&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canolacouncil.org\/markets-stats\/exports\/\"><u>roughly 1\/3<\/u><u><sup>rd<\/sup><\/u><\/a>&nbsp;of Canada\u2019s canola meal annually, per the table below.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Canola&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>meal<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;export volumes to China [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Total&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Canola Meal&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Exports to the World [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2024<\/td><td>2.003 million<\/td><td>5.771 million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2023<\/td><td>1.829 million<\/td><td>5.434 million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>1.894 million<\/td><td>4.838 million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>1.492 million<\/td><td>5.004 million<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fig:\u00a0<em>Canada\u2019s canola meal exports to China, 2021-2<\/em>4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China temporarily imposed 75.6% duty on grain canola imports from Canada on August 12, 2025, effective two days later. &nbsp; 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