{"id":503992,"date":"2026-02-27T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503992\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:54:08","slug":"china-suspends-some-agricultural-tariffs-on-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503992\/","title":{"rendered":"China suspends some agricultural tariffs on Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0February 27, 2026 at 3:27PM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0February 27, 2026 at 12:14PM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">China\u2019s government says it will suspend some tariffs on Canadian agricultural goods following a recent visit by Prime Minister Mark Carney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The country\u2019s finance ministry says 100 per cent tariffs on canola meal and peas, and a 25 per cent levy on lobsters and crabs, will not be imposed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A statement says the announcement, which made no mention of canola seed tariffs, will take effect March 1 and continue through to the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The announcement comes after Carney met earlier this year with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a visit that saw the leaders ink a deal on electric vehicles and canola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The pair agreed Canada would import up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles each year at a tariff rate of 6.1 per cent in exchange for lower duties on canola seed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carney\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Aaron Sousa, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 27, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0February 27, 2026 at 3:27PM EST Published:\u00a0February 27, 2026 at 12:14PM EST China\u2019s government says it will suspend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-503992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}