China’s anti-dumping duty on Canadian canola is ‘timed for impact’ and will have a major impact on farmers’ 2025-26 marketing opportunities, industry representatives said Tuesday.
In a ruling announced early Tuesday, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced the imposition of a 75.8% duty, collected in the form of a deposit, on all Canadian canola seed shipments as of Aug. 14, 2025. The duty will remain in place pending a final decision in September.
The ruling by MOFCOM is timed for impact as farmers who planted canola in 2025 are preparing for harvest in a few weeks time, said a statement released Tuesday afternoon by the Canola Council of Canada (CCC).
“This tariff will have an immediate and substantive impact on farmers’ marketing opportunities for the 2025 canola crop,” said Rick White, President and CEO of the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA). “Canadian farmers are globally competitive and if a solution is not found swiftly, the impact will be quickly felt on our farms and in our rural communities.”
Canola futures closed sharply lower today, with the November contract down $30.50 at $650.30.
China is Canada’s second-largest market for canola and related products, with exports valued at $4.9 billion in 2024. If upheld, the preliminary duty will make Canadian canola commercially unviable in China, which sources nearly all of its imports from Canada.
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