Canada supplies a small amount of China’s imports, and therefore has to pay some attention to managing Chinese importers as important customers.

Gauging China’s market risk

What does history say about managing China’s market potential and politics?

China provides risk and reward for Canadian agriculture exporters. With rhetoric escalating around the world, the risk could become a greater challenge. With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Houthis taking potshots at shipping vessels in the Red Sea, and China increasingly aggressive in the Indo-Pacific, war and near-kinetic levels of conflict have thrown several […] Read more


According to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, no Canadian beef has been shipped to the U.K. this year.

Beef imports from Britain jump 177 per cent

Canada exports zero beef to the U.K.

Glacier FarmMedia – Beef imports from the United Kingdom are up 177 per cent in the first four months of 2024. Canada imported $10.2 million worth of beef from Jan. 1 until the end of April, a significant increase from the same period in 2023, when beef imports from Britain were $3.7 million. Why it […] Read more

Carcasses of beef and pork. 'The Government of Canada needs to do everything in its power to counter foreign regulations that undermine the competitiveness of Canadian farmers.' – Cam Dahl.

Opinion: Time to get Canada’s export markets back on pace

Canada’s out-of-date system for approving products and innovations is holding us back

One of the fastest ways to bore someone to tears is mentioning the words “regulatory competitiveness.” It is, however, a critical topic, especially when accessing world markets is being made more difficult, and when enhancing the competitiveness of Canadian farmers is crucial to the economic sustainability of agriculture that helps drive the Canadian economy. Governments […] Read more

Disruptions to supply chain-reliant industries like beef requires thoughtful mitigation strategies, especially in an integrated North American system, says CCA President Nathan Phinney.

Fight continues toward elimination of non-tariff barriers in beef processing

Industry says producers need risk insurance against disruptions

The strike at Cargill’s Dunlop processing facility might finally be over and the beef sector now wants improve access to processing and obtain risk insurance against future disruptions. There is no good time for a strike, said Jim Clark, executive director of the Ontario Cattle Feeders Association and Ontario Corn Fed Beef. However, the labour […] Read more


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EU pork industry faces ‘nightmare’ if China restricts imports

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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Opinion: Rationale behind U.S. trade policy not always easy to follow

Biden makes a surprise protectionist move regarding China

The Biden administration’s trade agenda, mostly forgotten after three years of COVID-19, inflation, war in Ukraine, brutality in the Middle East and a cantankerous Congress, recently surfaced, and wow, is it a mess. Both presumptive presidential candidates —Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump — recently argued over how high U.S. tariffs should be on […] Read more