Reading Time: 4 minutes Chinese anger at sale of Panama Canal ports to a U.S. investor highlights the growing rivalry between the two nations and leaves many questions as to how the relationship will develop under Donald Trump's administration
ANALYSIS: Chinese anger at sale of Panama Canal ports to US investor highlights tensions between the two superpowers
Canadian farmers face two-front trade war as China duties take effect
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian farmers are facing a two-front trade war, with China’s tariffs on Canadian canola oil, canola meal and peas taking effect on Thursday and U.S. tariffs expected on additional Canadian products within two weeks.
Feed Grain Weekly: Prices stand still amidst tariff troubles
Politics driving feed grain markets
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tariffs from China and the United States have paralyzed feed grain markets in Western Canada according to Market Master Ltd. owner Susanne Leclerc from Edmonton.
Tariff threats called part of U.S. race with China
U.S. president’s actions are also seen as a possible negotiation tactic in upcoming Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement talks
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tariff threats against Canada and Mexico are part of a bigger struggle that the United States is in with China, says Christian Lawrence, a senior-cross asset strategist with Rabobank.
Proposed U.S. port fees on China-built ships choking coal, agriculture exports
U.S. agriculture exports face uncertainty due to proposed shipping fees, traders say
Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to revive U.S. shipbuilding using massive fees on China-linked ship visits to American ports is causing U.S. coal inventories to swell and stoking uncertainty in the embattled agriculture market, as exporters struggle to find ships to send goods abroad.
ICE Canada Weekly: Canola approaching uncertainty
Reading Time: 2 minutes As canola futures try to regain the ground lost during the week of March 10, the longer term outlook for the oilseed is very unknown, according to risk advisor and trader John De Pape of The Trading Floor.
China renews export registrations for US pork, poultry plants, industry groups say
Reading Time: 2 minutes Beijing has renewed registrations that allow hundreds of U.S. pork and poultry facilities to export to China, industry groups said on Monday, after lapses threatened shipments to the world's largest meat importer.
China set for canola meal shortage after 100 per cent duty on top supplier Canada
China faces limited availability of meal in other markets, plans to plant more rapeseed
Reading Time: 2 minutes China is likely to face a supply shortage of canola (rapeseed) meal by the third quarter of this year as Beijing's tariffs on shipments from top exporter Canada disrupt trade and as alternative sources are unlikely to make up the deficit.
Growers show flax interest amid canola turmoil
Statistics Canada forecasts an acreage drop, but a processor says farmers have been phoning since the U.S. trade war erupted
Reading Time: 2 minutes Statistics Canada has projected that flax acres will decline in 2025. That could happen, but with the trade and tariff uncertainty surrounding canola this winter, more growers are contacting Tyson Fehr and asking questions about the crop.
ICE Weekly: No end in sight for canola’s downfall
U.S., China tariffs sink canola prices
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tariffs on Canadian canola oil and meal imposed by the United States and China have sunk the futures for the oilseed at the Intercontinental Exchange.
A message from April Stewart, Country Guide's Associate Editor
