Feb 27 2025 55 mins 1
Blanket tariffs — like the proposed 25 per cent tariffs on all imports into the United States from Canada, set to come into place March 4 – affect every single industry. However, although the effects on almost all of Canada's industries are significant and negative, they're also all unique. Those who work in export commodities know that these complexities extend beyond consumer-level "buy Canadian" sentiment.
In this special episode of AgAnnex Talks, we discuss the unique ways in which the agriculture, agri-food and growing sectors would be affected by the planned tariffs. They discuss the subsectors that would be most affected, how our current trade processes work at a granular level, what lesser-known factors have industry groups worried and how these tariffs fit into an already at-times fraught context when it comes to labour, infrastructure and more.
Hosts Bree Rody (Manure Manager, Potatoes in Canada and Drainage Contractor editor) and Amy Kouniakis (Greenhouse Canada editor) also feature economic perspectives that touch on historic precedence of both tariff and non-tariff-related trade disruptions and what the industry learned from those times, innovation opportunities and just why the U.S. became such an important trade partner in the first place.
Today's guests of AgAnnex Talks are Colin Hornby, GM of Keystone Ag Producers, Victoria Stamper, GM of United Potato Growers of Canada and Amanda Norris, senior economist with Farm Credit Canada
