BEIJING, July 2 -- Canada's pea starch exporters started July facing a 73.5 percent cash deposit on every shipment into China, their largest Asian buyer, after Beijing's Ministry of Commerce issued a preliminary anti-dumping determination on June 30 that makes the trade commercially unviable at any realistic margin.

The measure arrives from an investigation that had been building quietly since August 2025, when six domestic Chinese pea starch manufacturers filed complaints alleging that Canadian imports were entering the market below cost and causing material damage to the homegrown industry. Beijing's investigators concluded there was sufficient basis to proceed, requiring importers to post cash deposits equivalent to 73.5 percent of th...