Israel launches ‘anti-dumping’ probe into Canadian companies
Added on 02 February 2024
The commissioner of Israel’s Trade Levies Unit opened an “anti-dumping” investigation in mid-January concerning the importation of medical marijuana from Canada after finding “a causal link” between the imports and “damage” to Israel’s local cannabis industry.
Any move to restrict imports could have a major impact on Canada’s fragile cannabis exports sector, as Israel currently accounts for more than one-third of all cannabis exports from Canada by weight.
In fiscal year 2023, Israel imported roughly 21,000 kilograms (21 metric tons) of cannabis from Canada for commercial and scientific use, data from the regulator Health Canada shows.
In a letter to Michael Mancini, chief commercial counselor for the Embassy of Canada in Israel, Danny Tal, director of import administration at Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Industry, wrote: “I wish to inform you that after I found that special circumstances exist, I have decided to initiate an Anti-Dumping investigation concerning the importation of medical cannabis from Canada.
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