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C renewable diesel producers on a per-liter basis for up to 300 Natural Resources Canada website, but Render reached out about the new measure.
that, producers can obtain 10 cents per liter for the remaining 130 million liters per year, topping out at 300 million liters per
a requirement that the fuel not be exported out of Canada,
Mark Carney in September to bolster Canadian biobased diesel producers struggling with changes in U.S. biofuels policy, with its neighbor to the south.
Historically, the U.S. and Canada have been each other’s top biodiesel trading partners. High volumes of U.S. biodiesel much smaller biobased diesel sector has been shipped over the years to the U.S. to take advantage of the $1-per-gallon fuel — once subsidized — was used in the U.S.
biodiesel in 2012, to as much as almost 105 million gallons just four years later.
peaked in 2023, reaching more than 230 million gallons. That same year, the U.S. imported a record volume of Canadian
As far as renewable diesel goes, Canada’s sector is much million gallons that year.
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For cross-border biodiesel trade, however, 2025 has been both countries, as well as for U.S. renewable diesel imports from Canada. In 2025, Canadian shipments of biodiesel dropped to just only shipped 61.5 million gallons of biodiesel to Canada, down
The reasons for the 2025 drop in cross-border biodiesel trade are multidimensional. These include policy shifts, trade disputes and less U.S. biodiesel production overall the agency has also not yet determined how it will deal with
one of the primary reasons why Canadian biodiesel shipments is only available to biofuel produced in the U.S. The blenders the fuel was made so long as it was consumed in the U.S.
Canadian renewable diesel producers from coast to coast Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, was evaluating the possibility of an economic shutdown of its 260-million-gallon- per-year facility.
negative impact on the competitiveness of its domestic determining there was not enough evidence to indicate that “the dumping and subsidizing of renewable diesel from the U.S. have caused injury or are threatening to cause injury to
biodiesel in 2025 on both sides of the border as a result of the
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