Over 4 months of the 2025/26 season, Canada exported only 200 thousand tons of canola to China.

According to Oil World, for the first 4 months of the 2025/26 marketing year, Canada exported only 0.2 million tons of canola to China (compared to 2.6 million tons in August-November 2024), due to the introduction of extremely high import duties by the PRC. In this season, the canola harvest in Canada increased compared to last year from 17 million tons to a record 21.8 million tons, so the issue of exporting to the main importer - China, which previously bought 6-7 million tons of canola per year, is very relevant. It is expected that after the recent agreement on a significant reduction and partial cancellation of trade duties from March 1, 2026, trade between the two countries will resume. China is the main market for many Canadian goods, including soybeans, whose shipments in August-November 2025 reached a record 1 million tons (+48% year-on-year), which constitutes 36% of total exports (26% last year). At the same time, discounts made by Canadian processors have increased ...