Insights and Stories on China

Jun. 10, 2025 at 10:43 am CDT

Canadian pea exports were up in April, with China the largest destination despite new trade barriers, according to the latest Statistics Canada data.

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Jun. 10, 2025 at 9:35 am CDT

China extended on Tuesday a high-profile investigation into imported pork from the European Union by six months, days before it was due to wrap up and as negotiators from Brussels and Beijing carve out a deal over the bloc's electric vehicle tariffs.

By Ella Cao, Reuters, Ryan Woo

Jun. 9, 2025 at 3:04 pm CDT

A biological sample that a Chinese researcher was accused of smuggling into the United States and that prosecutors cast as a “dangerous biological pathogen” is a common type of fungus already widespread in U.S. crop fields that likely poses little risk to food safety, experts said.

By Heather Schlitz, Reuters

Jun. 9, 2025 at 10:21 am CDT

Chinese farmers and small firms have increasingly bought market-ready pigs from larger breeders and fattened them in a bet on higher prices, but the government is cracking down on the speculative practice to slim down hogs and stabilize the market.

By Ella Cao, Lewis Jackson, Reuters

Jun. 9, 2025 at 10:16 am CDT

The prospect of Chinese and U.S. tariffs on canola have prompted Western Canadian farmers to seed more wheat.

By Ed White, Reuters