India becomes China’s largest supplier of rapeseed meal due to tariffs on Canadian products

supplied the majority of China’s canola meal imports until May 2025, but the impact of the tariffs quickly became apparent, according to a report by the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA FAS). China’s domestic canola production is not meeting demand for animal feed and industrial needs, so the country is actively looking for alternative partners to replace Canadian supplies. The increase in imports from India comes amid a decline in domestic consumption of rapeseed meal in the country due to the increased use of dried distillers grains (DDGs) as feed, linked to higher ethanol blending levels. Data from the Vegetable Oil Producers Association of India (SEA) confirms the trend: in July 2025, Indian rapeseed meal exports to China reached almost 100,000 tonnes. In the 2025/26 season, China expects to import 2.6 million tonnes of rapeseed meal – 400,000 tonnes more than previously forecast, but still the lowest figure in three years. Tariffs on Canadian rapeseed are likely to ...