Insights and Stories on China

ANALYSIS: Chinese anger at sale of Panama Canal ports to US investor highlights tensions between the two superpowers

Mar. 21, 2025 at 10:17 am CDT

Chinese anger at sale of Panama Canal ports to a U.S. investor highlights the growing rivalry between the two nations and leaves many questions as to how the relationship will develop under Donald Trump's administration

Farmer walks toward an air seeder with a blue sky above.

Canadian farmers face two-front trade war as China duties take effect

Mar. 21, 2025 at 9:39 am CDT

By Ed White Reuters

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices stand still amidst tariff troubles

Mar. 20, 2025 at 1:23 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

Tariff threats called part of U.S. race with China

Mar. 20, 2025 at 10:06 am CDT

By Greg Price

A tugboat passes shipping containers being unloaded and stacked on a pier at Port Newark, New Jersey, U.S., November 19, 2021.

Proposed U.S. port fees on China-built ships choking coal, agriculture exports

Mar. 19, 2025 at 4:24 pm CDT

By Karl Plume Lisa Baertlein Reuters Timothy Gardner

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola approaching uncertainty

Mar. 19, 2025 at 3:45 pm CDT

As canola futures try to regain the ground lost during the week of March 10, the longer term outlook for the oilseed is very unknown, according to risk advisor and trader John De Pape of The Trading Floor.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

China renews export registrations for US pork, poultry plants, industry groups say

Mar. 17, 2025 at 10:19 am CDT

Beijing has renewed registrations that allow hundreds of U.S. pork and poultry facilities to export to China, industry groups said on Monday, after lapses threatened shipments to the world's largest meat importer.

By Mei Mei Chu Reuters Tom Polansek and Julie Steenhuysen

Canadian canola field between two grain bins.

China set for canola meal shortage after 100 per cent duty on top supplier Canada

Mar. 14, 2025 at 10:38 am CDT

China is likely to face a supply shortage of canola (rapeseed) meal by the third quarter of this year as Beijing's tariffs on shipments from top exporter Canada disrupt trade and as alternative sources are unlikely to make up the deficit.

By Ella Cao Mei Mei Chu Reuters

Growers show flax interest amid canola turmoil

Mar. 13, 2025 at 2:05 pm CDT

Statistics Canada has projected that flax acres will decline in 2025. That could happen, but with the trade and tariff uncertainty surrounding canola this winter, more growers are contacting Tyson Fehr and asking questions about the crop.

By Robert Arnason

ICE Weekly: No end in sight for canola’s downfall

Mar. 12, 2025 at 3:07 pm CDT

Tariffs on Canadian canola oil and meal imposed by the United States and China have sunk the futures for the oilseed at the Intercontinental Exchange.

By Adam Peleshaty