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China blocks Canada’s request for review of Chinese duties on agriculture, fish
Next meeting June 23
China has blocked Canada's request to set up a dispute panel to review additional import duties by China on certain Canadian farming products and fish, a Geneva-based trade official said on June 5.

Pulse Canada president encouraged by first ministers’ statement
Cherewyk calls for immediate end to China’s tariffs
Greg Cherewyk was pleased with the final communique that came out of the first ministers' conference in Saskatoon on June 2. The statement noted the federal government's commitment to resolving trade issues with China.

Confused by Trump’s tariffs? Better ask a lawyer
A Canadian law firm is using its website in an attempt to make sense of the ongoing and difficult to understand trade chaos
Osler, a business law firm with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver and New York, attempted to make sense of the ongoing trade chaos in a June 3 post on its website.

Two Chinese researchers accused of smuggling ‘potential agroterrorism weapon’ into U.S.
Fusarium poses threat
U.S. federal prosecutors have accused two Chinese nationals of smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen that had the potential to be used as an agricultural terrorism weapon into the United States for research.

EU farmers raise alarm over Mercosur, Ukraine trade deals
Comments come ahead of visit by Brazil’s Lula
French and Spanish farmers warned on Wednesday that a flood of imports under planned European Union trade agreements with South American bloc Mercosur and Ukraine risked severely undermining European agriculture.

Revamp coming for Canada’s national pig code
Canada’s Code of Practice for Care and Handling of Pigs is up for review, a process expected to be compete by 2028
The code that sets Canada’s standards care and handling of pigs is up for review, a process expected to be compete by 2028.

Australia forecasts wheat output down 10 per cent on dry conditions
Barley, canola also hit
Australia's wheat production is projected to drop 10 per cent this year to 30.6 million tonnes, with barley and canola output also expected to fall due to dry conditions across several cropping regions, the agriculture ministry, ABARES, said.

India’s monsoon stalls after early start
Monsoon to pick up again around June 11
Rainfall over India is likely to remain subdued for over a week as the annual monsoon’s progress has stalled after its earliest onset in 16 years, though it is likely to pick up again from June 11, two senior weather bureau officials said on Monday.

Most crops off to good start
Some parts of the Prairies are very dry, but provincial crop specialists say it’s still early in the season
Some parts of the Prairies are very dry, but provincial crop specialists say it's still early in the season

Farm Credit Canada pledges $2 billion in agtech investment by 2030
Farm Credit Canada says it will invest $2 billion into agtech innovation by 2030.