Almost all molasses Canada ships to the U.S. is made from imported cane, meaning it doesn’t qualify as a ‘product of Canada’ under trade rules.
Source: Trump’s Canadian molasses ban has a loophole. Here’s why our sugar industry is breathing easy
til canada does make some molasses, but from sugar beets, not molasses, but a very small amount compared to what we make from sugar cane, which we import from usa (or others?) and then export to usa; this make the usa ban more or less moot, per the article.
