# Canola Blackleg And The Canada-China Relationship

> China imposed a 1% dockage limit on Canadian canola from September 2016, down from 2.5%, citing blackleg disease concerns. Chinese scientists were expected to visit Canada to assess the blackleg risk, and a similar restriction was imposed in 2009.

- Date: 2017-03-21 · published 2017-03-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region China · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/71960-canola-blackleg-and-the-canada-china-relationship
- Commodities: [Canola Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CANMEAL.md)

## Why it matters

Tighter dockage limits raise the risk of rejected or delayed Canadian canola shipments to China, which can weigh on canola and meal export demand and prices.

## Read by commodity

- CANMEAL: bearish ▼

## Sources

- saifood.ca: https://saifood.ca/canola-blackleg/

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