Hannigan Honey
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Shellbrook, Saskatchewan · Squarespace shop · hanniganhoney.com
Small businessMain products hit
Hannigan Honey runs over 5,000 hives on the canola, clover and alfalfa fields around Shellbrook, Saskatchewan and turns roughly a million pounds a year into two things: small jars of smooth, creamy white canola/clover honey and food-grade 200-litre drums holding about 300 kg each for container-load buyers.
there will be zero exports with a 50 per cent tariff. There will be no movement that direction. It will be a closed door until something is renegotiated.Source: panow.com, Aug 23, 2026
Natural honey is HTS 0409.00.00 on the CBP Section 338 list, carrying a 50% additional duty since August 22, 2026. Hannigan Honey typically sends 20 to 40 per cent of its crop south, and Murray Hannigan, president of the family business his father founded in 1940, told CKOM the day after the duty took effect that "there will be zero exports with a 50 per cent tariff" — a closed door on the market that took between a fifth and two fifths of the company's output.
In their own words
And so yes, a lot of uncertainty. It is affecting us hugely, just simply shutting us out
Murray Hannigan, owner of Hannigan Honey, quoted by Global News · globalnews.ca, Aug 25, 2026
Hannigan tells Global News the 50% duty has not just raised his cost of doing business in the United States, it has removed him from the market.
there will be zero exports with a 50 per cent tariff. There will be no movement that direction. It will be a closed door until something is renegotiated.
Murray Hannigan, President of Hannigan Honey, quoted by CKOM/paNOW · panow.com, Aug 23, 2026
The day after the duty took effect, Hannigan says US shipments stop entirely rather than shrink.
I provide work for a lot of people. That's really important to me that they have a degree of stability in their lives
Murray Hannigan, owner of Hannigan Honey, quoted by Global News · globalnews.ca, Aug 25, 2026
Hannigan says the unpredictability weighs on the nearly three dozen staff supporting his operation.
Here's the sticky point: it costs more money to eat honey than it does to eat sugar
Murray Hannigan, President of Hannigan Honey, quoted by CKOM/paNOW · panow.com, Aug 23, 2026
Hannigan is sceptical that buying Canadian can absorb the lost American volume when household budgets are already stretched.
We have had to travel to Japan, we've gone with the Premier. We've been there on our own. And that connectivity is very important to them. It's important to us
Murray Hannigan, owner of Hannigan Honey, quoted by Global News · globalnews.ca, Aug 25, 2026
Hannigan started diversifying beyond the United States more than a decade ago and is now leaning harder on Japan and Europe.
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Made in Canada
The whole crop comes off Saskatchewan fields and never leaves the province until it ships: "We're based in Shellbrook, Saskatchewan, a community nestled on the edge of the Canadian wilderness. It's a spectacular landscape of vast, rolling fields of canola, clover and alfalfa. Here, our 5,000-plus beehives are rated as the healthiest and most productive among our peers", and "From the hive to the honey gate, our honey never exceeds the temperature of the beehive."
On the tariff list
- HTS 0409.00.00 · Natural honey · 50% since Aug 22, 2026
The shop calls itself "Producers of fine Canadian honey." and describes its single product as "canola/clover—a blend that produces an exceptionally smooth, mild flavoured, white honey" sold in jars and in "food grade 200-litre drums". That is natural honey under HTS 0409.00.00, and Global News reports the operation "typically sends between 20 to 40% of its product to the US."
Rates are the additional US duty under Section 338. About the tariffs
Sources
- hanniganhoney.com · accessed 2026-09-09
Producers of fine Canadian honey.
- hanniganhoney.com · accessed 2026-09-09
We're based in Shellbrook, Saskatchewan, a community nestled on the edge of the Canadian wilderness. It's a spectacular landscape of vast, rolling fields of canola, clover and alfalfa. Here, our 5,000-plus beehives are rated as the healthiest and most productive among our peers.
- hanniganhoney.com · accessed 2026-09-09
Hannigan Honey extracts canola/clover—a blend that produces an exceptionally smooth, mild flavoured, white honey.
- hanniganhoney.com · accessed 2026-09-10
From small jars of smooth, creamy white honey, to container loads of honey in drums, you will partake of the quality and professionalism first established by Albert Hannigan in 1940.
- hanniganhoney.com · accessed 2026-09-09
Hannigan Honey produces an average of 1 million pounds (500 Metric Tonnes) of honey a year. Eighty percent of our honey production is exported to global markets, including the USA and Japan. The remaining 20% is sold in the domestic Canadian market. Our honey is shipped in food grade 200-litre drums, each holding about 300 kgs.
- hanniganhoney.com · accessed 2026-09-09
In 1977, Hannigan Honey relocated to Shellbrook to take advantage of a new source of nectar—canola. In 1998, Albert's son Murray took over the family business and became president of Hannigan Honey Inc. David Philp, a young man who had started working at Hannigan Honey at the age of 16, became a business partner in 2013.
- hanniganhoney.com · accessed 2026-09-09
Hannigan Honey Inc. PO Box 367 Shellbrook, Saskatchewan Canada S0J 2E0 Office: 1-306-747-3299
- ca.linkedin.com · accessed 2026-09-09
11-50 employees
- globalnews.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
It's a major blow for Murray Hannigan's honey operation, which typically sends between 20 to 40% of its product to the US.
- panow.com · accessed 2026-09-09
One area that didn't get away unscathed, though, is the province's honey, which is included on the list of tariffed items.
- content.govdelivery.com · accessed 2026-09-09
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