{"id":23151,"date":"2025-09-04T09:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23151"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:03:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:03:55","slug":"citrus-market-prices-in-the-u-s-stabilize-after-canada-axes-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/09\/04\/citrus-market-prices-in-the-u-s-stabilize-after-canada-axes-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Citrus market prices in the U.S. stabilize after Canada axes tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Market prices of citrus fruits are stabilizing in the U.S. after Canada removed retaliatory tariffs on September 1, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ottawa exempted majority consumer goods it had previously taxed with 25% duty worth US$2.98 billion. The aim is smoothening ongoing bilateral negotiations and strengthen privileges accruing to members of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far under the USMCA and other agreements, 85% of goods between the two North American neighbors trade duty-free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trade war however downsized the January-June 2025 imports by Canada from the U.S. by 1.5%<\/u><\/a>, year-on-year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citrus is one of three agricultural categories whose tariffs Canada has erased, alongside dairy\/poultry, grains\/fruits and beverages\/spirits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This had a positive effect on the Philadelphia terminal market on September 3, 2025, where price steadiness was manifest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the USDA\u2019s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS<\/u><\/a>), both local and foreign citrus categories at the terminal showed price parity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wholesale limes steadied pricing at $33-36 per 38-pound carton of mostly seedless types from Honduras and Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lemons showed rate stability, too, at the $40-48 range per 7\/10 bushel carton for the California crop. This is even as Argentina\u2019s lemons traded at between $33 and $35 per 17 kg.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oranges on the other hand hovered between $22 and $28 per 15 kg cartons, mostly originating from Chile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navels from South Africa cost $22-30 per 15 kg while Valencias from California fetched $34 to $40.50 per 7\/10 bushel carton.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above data puts the weighted wholesale rate for oranges at about $1.4 a kg, a robust rate historically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conversely, Valencia oranges in the U.S. had averaged $20.18 per box (average 85 pounds<\/u><\/a>\/36.3 kg) in the 2023-24 season. This translates to around $0.55\/kg or $0.25 a pound, wholesale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus the removal of Canada\u2019s tariffs had an indirect stabilizing effect on American citrus prices<\/u><\/a>. The rates could have been higher due to logistic costs from mainly southern Hemisphere origins. Indeed, Canada imports much citrus from its southern neighbor, per the below stats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada-U.S. Citrus Trade and Market Prices <\/strong>Statistics <\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Canada ranks 53rd<\/sup>\u00a0in global citrus exports at 17.702 tonnes worth US$24,640<\/a>, as of 2023, according to the World Bank. The United States, on the other hand, leads world exports of fresh or dried citrus at\u00a0$18,516,790<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(2023). Canada is one of its major importers and therefore impacts trade flow and price direction, regionally. In 2024, Ottawa imported\u00a0US$200.71 million<\/u><\/a>\u00a0in fresh or dried citrus from the United States, per Trading Economics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ho<\/strong>w important is the United States as a citrus source for Canada?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, the United States was Canada\u2019s\u00a03rd<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0biggest\u00a0<\/u><\/a>citrus import source, commanding 4,130.030 tonnes. Only China at 10,327.7 tonnes and Mexico sold more citrus to Canada that year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which are the historical wholesale rates of American oranges<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 2021-24 period, orange prices trended as follows, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA<\/u><\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Timeline<\/strong><\/td>Price [per average 85-pound box of fresh fruit]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2023-24<\/td>$20.18<\/td><\/tr>
2022-23<\/td>$18.89<\/td><\/tr>
2021-22<\/td>$19.05<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Fig: orange prices in the United States, 2021-24<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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