India emerges as China’s largest rapeseed meal supplier due to tariffs on Canada

oil from Canada, meant China now had prohibitive tariffs on all Canadian canola products, the September Oilseeds: World Markets and Trade report said. Canada had supplied the bulk of China’s rapeseed meal imports until May 2025, when the impact of tariffs became noticeable, the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) report said. China’s domestic rapeseed production has been insufficient to meet its feed demand and to ensure ample supply for domestic industries, it was engaging with alternative trade partners to replace Canadian sourced rapeseed products, according to the report. The uptick in China’s imports of Indian rapeseed meal came against a backdrop of reduced Indian domestic rapeseed meal consumption due to an increased use of dried distillers grains (DDGs) as feed following the introduction of a higher ethanol blending rate. The trend was backed up by Solvent Extractors’ Association (SEA) data which showed Indian rapeseed meal exports to China totalled almost 100,000 tonnes in ...