Canadian canola farmers to feel impact from damaging Chinese tariffs
By Canadian Press on March 8, 2025.
OTTAWA — Canadian farmers could take a big hit from China’s sudden retaliatory tariffs that take aim at canola, pork and other food commodities.
Chris Davison, head of the Canola Council of Canada, says the tariffs are prohibitively high and the fallout will be felt across his industry.
Davison says China is a top market for Canadian canola that represents close to $5 billion in export value.
Beijing announced retaliatory tariffs on select Canadian farm imports in response to Canadian duties levied back in the fall against Chinese-made electric vehicles, and steel and aluminum products.
The new tariffs against Canadian agricultural products are expected to kick in on March 20 — and will widen Canada’s ongoing trade problems as the country seeks to beat back U.S. President Donald Trump’s stop-and-go tariffs.
China is hitting Canada with 100 per cent tariffs on canola oil and peas, and 25 per cent tariffs on pork and aquatic products — loosely mirroring Canada’s EV and steel and aluminum levies.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 8, 2025.
— With files from the Associated Press.
Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press
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Why are we not boycotting China? We should not be trading anything with China! China has committed multiple acts of espionage on Canada, industrially, in our military and even government.
By trading with them we are paying them to build up their military and take over the West. But we hit a speedbump with the US that is only going to be short term, and everyone is cancelling trips to the US, boycotting all their products and counter ing their tariffs.
We just are blind! The biggest threat is China and they have already moved on South America, Africa, areas of the Middle East and the South China sea by building ports and offering weapons for oil or the resources as they suck those countries into becoming dependent on them and owe them!