Insights and Stories on Global Trade

China Q1 pork output rises 1.2 per cent year-over-year, oversupply pressures persist

Apr. 16, 2025 at 10:07 am CDT

China's pork output rose 1.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2025 from a year earlier to 16.02 million metric tons, helped by a rise in breeding sows last year, pre-holiday slaughter and heavier hog weights.

Next government must help Canadian pork sector through Chinese tariffs says meat council

Apr. 15, 2025 at 3:18 pm CDT

By Jonah Grignon

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh waits for Chinese President Xi Jinping to arrive before his departure, following his visit to Hanoi at Noi Bai International Airport in Vietnam, April 15, 2025.

China, Vietnam support multilateral trade regime amid U.S. tariff pressure

Apr. 15, 2025 at 10:15 am CDT

By Reuters

What are the thorny farm issues in India-US trade negotiations?

Apr. 14, 2025 at 1:19 pm CDT

By Reuters

WTO chiefs past and present demand rapid reform to keep global free trade alive

Apr. 11, 2025 at 9:54 am CDT

By emma-farge Olivia Le Poidevin Reuters

A European Union flag flies in the wind in front of the Berlaymont building, the seat of the European Commission, in Brussels.

EU pauses countermeasures after Trump’s tariff reprieve; U.S. weighing deals

Apr. 10, 2025 at 10:58 am CDT

The European Union will pause its first countermeasures against U.S. tariffs after President Donald Trump temporarily lowered the hefty dutiesless than a day after imposing them on dozens of countries, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday.

By Andrea Shalal Joe Cash philip-blenkinsop Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 2, 2025.

How are U.S. tariffs affecting American agricultural trade so far?

Apr. 9, 2025 at 11:52 am CDT

New deals could be struck with over tariffs “perhaps even by the end of the week,” U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Fox News on Tuesday as the country’s self-made trade war threatened markets for American farm goods.

By Geralyn Wichers Reuters

China boosts Indian rapeseed meal purchases after tariff on Canadian canola imports

Apr. 8, 2025 at 9:39 am CDT

China has bought 52,000 tons of Indian rapeseed meal in the past three weeks after Chinese authorities imposed a 100 per cent retaliatory tariff on Canadian canola imports, industry sources said.

By rajendra-jadhav Reuters

No new U.S. tariffs on Canadian canola ‘welcome news’

Apr. 4, 2025 at 10:14 am CDT

No new tariffs on Canadian canola products means some relief for Canadian canola farmers, though uncertainty remains, say Canada's national canola organizations.

By Jonah Grignon

France pushes for farming ’emergency brake’ in Mercosur deal

Apr. 3, 2025 at 4:27 pm CDT

Despite previous reservations, France held a meeting with 10 EU countries to discuss a possible trade deal with Latin America's Mercosur bloc, a day after the United States unleashed a global trade war, signalling it may be a way for the bloc to offset the impact of U.S. tariffs on European exports.

By Reuters