Three, not one, but three Canadian exporters of canola seed is being effected by China's hissy fit over the arrest of a CEO groomed to carry out espionage to benefit China.
There can be no BUGS that cause problems with canola crops with obvious yields like this. China will be defeated in it's complaint. The proof of such complaint should have been obtained BEFORE the grain left the Canadian ports bound for China, not after the shipment was receive. China has piss poor quality control if it is not testing imports before they leave the port. Such poor business practices result in adverse problems with the suppliers. It is one thing to have a product rejected on it's domestic dock and return the product to it's origins, it is something all together to send a product to it's destination only to have it rejected and then seek to have it returned at the expense of the original source. That is nonsense. All products BEFORE export should be received by the customer that is the destination WITH NO RECOURSE available short of sincere fraud.
April 2, 2019
By David Ljunggren
Canola field in the foreground with flax in the background in at Tigers Hills near Somerset, Manitoba, Canada
Ottawa - Chinese authorities (click here) have filed a quality complaint against a third Canadian exporter of canola, Canada’s agriculture minister said on Tuesday, potentially deepening a trade and diplomatic dispute between Beijing and Ottawa.
Early last month, China cited the discovery of pests as the reason for blocking shipments of canola seed from Richardson International. Shortly afterward, it expanded the ban to a second major exporter, Viterra Inc.
“We have been informed that there is a third company that received a non-compliance notification ... it does not mean that they are suspended,” Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau told the House of Commons trade committee, saying she could not identify the firm.
Beijing has been angry with Canada since the chief financial officer of Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd was arrested in Vancouver last December on a U.S. extradition request.
Richardson, Canada’s largest exporter of canola seed to China, said on Tuesday it would “not be a painless exercise” to find new international markets if Beijing’s ban on imports continued in the long term.
