Summer's Gold Honey Company
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Merlin, Ontario · Own site · summersgoldhoney.ca
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Mike and Pamela Davidson pack unpasteurized Canada No. 1 golden liquid honey into squeezable skeps, wide-mouth jars and bears from 140 g to 1 kg, plus creamed and raw honey in glass jars, and sell pure beeswax, shaped beeswax candles, a 60 ml propolis tincture and 10-litre feeder pails out of a processing plant on William Street in Merlin.
Do as much as you possibly can to support the small guySource: cbc.ca, Aug 18, 2026
Summer's Gold liquid honey is natural honey under HTS 0409.00.00 on the CBP Section 338 list, taxed 50% on entry to the United States since August 22, 2026. Owner Mike Davidson's fear is what that duty does at home: with the Prairie crop shut out of the American market that took nearly $28.5 million of Canadian honey last year, he told CBC Windsor on August 18, 2026, "So if they're under pressure to dump, they'll be dumping ... in Ontario at cheap prices on grocery store shelves", against Ontario producers with "crops three times as big as ours".
In their own words
The western beekeepers — Alberta and Manitoba, Saskatchewan — have a co-op
Mike Davidson, Summer's Gold Honey Company, quoted by CBC News · cbc.ca, Aug 18, 2026
Davidson explains to CBC Windsor how the Prairie crop reaches Ontario shelves once the American market closes.
So if they're under pressure to dump, they'll be dumping ... in Ontario at cheap prices on grocery store shelves.
Mike Davidson, Summer's Gold Honey Company, quoted by CBC News · cbc.ca, Aug 18, 2026
The Merlin packer's read on where 50%-tariffed Prairie honey goes instead of south.
That means Ontario beekeepers have to follow them down. And they have crops three times as big as ours.
Mike Davidson, Summer's Gold Honey Company, quoted by CBC News · cbc.ca, Aug 18, 2026
Davidson on why a tariff aimed at Alberta honey lands on an Ontario family that never shipped to the United States.
Do as much as you possibly can to support the small guy
Mike Davidson, Summer's Gold Honey Company, quoted by CBC News · cbc.ca, Aug 18, 2026
What Davidson asked shoppers to do, adding "I'll be there when he runs out."
Days after trade talks ended with the Trump administration, Canada is rolling out $7.5 billion to help businesses weather the new 50 per cant tariffs imposed by the U.S. We hear from small business owners about the impact with former diplomat Colin Robertson.
Summer's Gold Honey Company · summersgoldhoney.ca, Aug 26, 2026
The company's own media page logs its appearance on CBC's Ontario Today four days after the duty took effect, alongside the CBC Windsor story and a Financial Post buy-Canadian guide.
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Made in Canada
"Here at The Summer's Gold Honey Company, family isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing": the family built "a CFIA registered honey processing facility" in "the quaint village of Merlin Ontario" and are "producers, packers, wholesalers and retailers of some of the finest honey Canada has to offer", warming the honey only enough to filter and pack it so "All the nutrients, vitamins, natural yeast, enzymes and pollen are still in the honey."
On the tariff list
- HTS 0409.00.00 · Natural honey · 50% since Aug 22, 2026
The shop sells "1 kg Liquid Honey Squeezable Skep Canada No. 1 Golden" and says "All of Summer's Gold Honey Company honey is unpasteurized", which is natural honey under HTS 0409.00.00. Note for review: CBC's August 18, 2026 story is headlined "even if they don't export their product" - the duty covers the honey Summer's Gold packs, but the harm Davidson describes is the domestic price collapse rather than lost US sales of his own.
Rates are the additional US duty under Section 338. About the tariffs
Sources
- summersgoldhoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Here at The Summer's Gold Honey Company, family isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing.
- summersgoldhoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Located in the quaint village of Merlin Ontario, Summer's Gold Honey Company offers the opportunity to experience a unique blend of small rural village culture and high technology food safety standards.
- summersgoldhoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Summer's Gold Honey Company are producers, packers, wholesalers and retailers of some of the finest honey Canada has to offer.
- summersgoldhoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
All of Summer's Gold Honey Company honey is unpasteurized. We warm our honey slightly to help with filtering and packaging. All the nutrients, vitamins, natural yeast, enzymes and pollen are still in the honey.
- summersgoldhoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
1 kg Liquid Honey Squeezable Skep Canada No. 1 Golden
- summersgoldhoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
60-ml Propolis Tincture
- summersgoldhoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Summer's Gold Honey Company 101 William Street Merlin ON N0P 1W0
- sydenhamcurrent.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
A family-owned company, Summer's Gold Honey are producers, packers, wholesalers and retailers of some of the finest honey Canada has to offer.
- sydenhamcurrent.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Rosemarie Montgomery from Chatham-Kent Economic Development celebrates the success of Summer's Gold Honey expansion with owners, Pamela and Mike Davidson.
- cbc.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
According to people like Mike Davidson, owner of Summer's Gold Honey Company in Chatham-Kent, the problem is that large-scale Canadian honey producers based in the Prairies could shift the focus of their sales to Ontario, driving down honey prices and rendering small producers unviable.
- cbc.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
As well as producing honey, Davidson's company also distributes honey from other producers.
- cbc.ca · accessed 2026-09-10
Last year, Canada shipped nearly $28.5 million worth of honey to the U.S., according to an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada overview of the industry.
- summersgoldhoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-10
1 kg Creamed Unpasteurized Honey Glass Jar Canada No. 1 White
- content.govdelivery.com · accessed 2026-09-09
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