China wants to lower the amount of dockage it allows on canola imports.

Market analyst Mike Davey of FarmLink Marketing Solutions says this has put pressure on canola futures, sending the signal to participants that future canola exports to China are in question — but he thinks there is enough business on the books with China that contracts will stand as originally contracted.

"I think the trade was penciling in China for about 4.2 million tonnes of canola imports this year from Canada. The trade believes maybe we can stroke a million tonnes off that to China, so that drops us maybe down to 3.2, but again, there are other buyers that will step up and pick up some of that slack, which has yet to be determined," Davey says.

Davey says this market pressure leans on both new and old crop.