{"id":47866,"date":"2026-10-06T12:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47866"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:14:49","slug":"trumps-canadian-molasses-ban-has-a-loophole-heres-why-our-sugar-industry-is-breathing-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47866","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Canadian molasses ban has a loophole. Here\u2019s why our sugar industry is breathing easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/canada-molasses-trump-import-ban-sugar-industry\/article_29ca4baa-c087-432c-818b-a1797b97ace2.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6abfda65c6b68.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:191px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost all molasses Canada ships to the U.S. is made from imported cane, meaning it doesn&#8217;t qualify as a &#8216;product of Canada&#8217; under trade rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/canada-molasses-trump-import-ban-sugar-industry\/article_29ca4baa-c087-432c-818b-a1797b97ace2.html\">Trump&#8217;s Canadian molasses ban has a loophole. Here\u2019s why our sugar industry is breathing easy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost all molasses Canada ships to the U.S. is made from imported&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,2323,1500,1102,57],"class_list":["post-47866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-molasses","tag-sugar","tag-tfg","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47869,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47866\/revisions\/47869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}