Reading Time: 2 minutes Some people are wondering if canola could once again be in China’s crosshairs if the country retaliates against a series of new punitive tariffs announced by Canada on Monday.
Tariffs on Chinese EVs prompt canola worries
Explainer: China widens probe of EU imports
Reading Time: 2 minutes China has widened its investigation into imported EU products, adding an anti-subsidy probe of cheese, milk and cream to anti-dumping checks on pork and brandy.
Russian pork producers target EU’s share of China’s pork market
Reading Time: 3 minutes Russian pork producers are aiming to capture ten per cent of China's pork import market in the coming years from a standing start, seeking to take advantage of trade tensions between the European Union and China, the world's biggest pork consumer.
Trump’s trade threats a global concern
Reading Time: 2 minutes Importers and exporters around the world are uneasily analyzing what a 10 per cent tariff, or other border measures likely in a second Donald Trump U.S. presidential term, could mean for trade.
China shuts cattle farm after anthrax outbreak, five human infections
Reading Time: < 1 minute China's eastern Shandong province reported five people were infected with anthrax and a beef cattle farm was shut after an outbreak was discovered in the agricultural province.
China singles out Danish, Dutch, Spanish firms in anti-dumping probe
Reading Time: 2 minutes China on Thursday named Danish Crown A/S, as well as Dutch and Spanish pork firms as targets in an anti-dumping probe into European Union pork imports, as Beijing steps up pressure against the bloc's curbs on its electric vehicle exports.
From Black Sea to US Midwest, extreme weather threatens crop output
Hot, dry weather forecast for Russia, Ukraine in coming months; relief seen for China's corn, soybean crops hit by heatwave
Reading Time: 3 minutes Forecast dryness in the Black Sea region's breadbasket is likely to stunt sunflower and corn yields, while heavy rain in the United States after near-record temperatures threaten to take a toll on crops, hitting world supplies and pushing prices higher.
China may take provisional anti-dumping steps against EU pork imports
Reading Time: 2 minutes China has opened an investigation into EU pork and its by-products, a step that appears mainly aimed at Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark, after the bloc imposed anti-subsidy duties on Chinese-made electric vehicles.
Rival pork exporters could benefit from China-EU trade tensions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pork suppliers from South America and the U.S. could gain market share in China if Beijing restricts imports from the European Union in response to escalating trade tensions, traders and analysts said.
EU pork industry faces ‘nightmare’ if China restricts imports
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hamburg | Reuters – Europe’s pork industry faces a “nightmare scenario” of lower prices and falling profitability if China restricts imports from the region, industry executives and analysts said on Friday. Chinese firms have asked for an anti-dumping probe into pork imports from the European Union, state-backed Chinese media reported on Friday, escalating tensions after the bloc […] Read more
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