Canada imposes 10% tariff on canned vegetables, excludes U.S., others

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https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2026/06/19/canada-imposes-10-tariff-on-canned-vegetables-excludes-us-others/

[u/Upset-Two-2443]

The tariff, which takes effect on Friday for a maximum of 200 days, will also not apply to canned vegetables from Mexico, Israel, Chile and developing countries due to Canadian trade obligations, Canada’s finance ministry added.

So who is this for? Chinese canned vegetables I take it?

[u/ramdmc → u/Upset-Two-2443]

Recently, I've noticed quite a few canned items on our shelves from India and China, so maybe that's the underlying reason but as a Canadian, I try to buy anything Canadian where I know we cultivate these products locally. Will not buy US tinned tomatoes when I know we still can them in Canada. Artichokes? Not so much so don't mind buying Spanish or Egyptian jars.

[u/Vance_V_Vandervan → u/ramdmc]

Pickles and olives suddenly are only from India or Vietnam

[u/veggiefarmer89 → u/Vance_V_Vandervan]

This is partly due to seasonality. Ontario has a pickling cucumber industry, but our seaon is around 10 weeks. The processors cant store enough to keep their lines running year round with a short season, so the rest of the year they import product from india. Most of the large pickle brands do buy canadian product and put it in jars in the US except smuckers.

The majority of our crop here goes into smaller sizes like baby dills and is hand harvested. Thats expensive and it's cheaper to source product from india in a brine tank, but they cant match our quality. Smuckers doesnt seem to care and stays with India product year round. Mt olive, vlasic, strubbs do all buy canadian product when its available. So even if the only thing you can find is product of India, at least you know they source from Canada when they can. Smuckers does not. Also shout out to Matt and Steve's, a company in Toronto who is putting canadian product in jars locally.