Worker Bee Honey Company
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Rosedale, British Columbia · Online shop · workerbeehoney.ca
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Three Awram brothers sell single-blossom clover, raw alfalfa-clover, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry and baking honey in 3 kg, 5 kg and 15 kg pails, plus pure yellow beeswax in finger sizes, crumble bags, 2.2 lb boxes and blocks, from the storefront on McGrath Road in Rosedale.
The whole industry is in an uproar over thisSource: theglobeandmail.com, Jul 24, 2026
Worker Bee's pails of clover, raw, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry and baking honey are 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. Peter Awram, who runs the company and sits on the board of the Canadian Beekeepers Federation, told the Globe and Mail that prices had just turned good before the announcement and that if exports stop, "there's a good chance of prices dropping 40 per cent, maybe more".
In their own words
The whole industry is in an uproar over this
Peter Awram, Worker Bee Honey Co., quoted by The Globe and Mail · theglobeandmail.com, Jul 24, 2026
Awram's first reaction to honey appearing on the tariff list, in a trade that had crossed the border without grievance for decades.
It will be brutal.
Peter Awram, Worker Bee Honey Co., quoted by The Globe and Mail · theglobeandmail.com, Jul 24, 2026
Awram's plain forecast of what a 50% duty does to Canadian beekeepers.
there's a good chance of prices dropping 40 per cent, maybe more
Peter Awram, Worker Bee Honey Co., quoted by The Globe and Mail · theglobeandmail.com, Jul 24, 2026
Awram, who also sits on the board of the Canadian Beekeepers Federation, on what happens to the domestic price when honey that would have gone south has nowhere to go.
Nobody is happy right now.
Peter Awram, Worker Bee Honey Co., quoted by The Globe and Mail · theglobeandmail.com, Jul 24, 2026
After the announcement the American buyers who had been bidding prices up went quiet, and Awram summed up the mood in the yards.
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Made in Canada
The bees have been Canadian for three generations: "Jerry and Pia Awram began beekeeping in Alberta in 1973", in 1984 "the family moved the entire operation to British Columbia's Fraser Valley", and "Today all three of Jerry and Pia's sons — Peter, Tom, and David — run the business as a true family enterprise."
On the tariff list
- HTS 0409.00.00 · Natural honey · 50% since Aug 22, 2026
The shop sells "Single-blossom honey, straight from the hive" - clover, raw, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry and baking - "Sold in bulk — 3 kg, 5 kg, and 15 kg pails", which is natural honey under HTS 0409.00.00.
Rates are the additional US duty under Section 338. About the tariffs
Sources
- workerbeehoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Pure bulk honey, natural beeswax, and trusted pollination services — raised among the mountains of the Fraser Valley by a family that's kept bees for over fifty years.
- workerbeehoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Single-blossom honey, straight from the hive Each variety takes its colour and character from the blossoms our bees visit. Sold in bulk — 3 kg, 5 kg, and 15 kg pails.
- workerbeehoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Yellow beeswax in finger sizes, crumble bags, 2.2 lb boxes, and blocks — perfect for candles, cosmetics, and food wraps.
- workerbeehoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Jerry and Pia Awram began beekeeping in Alberta in 1973, at a time when most keepers killed off their hives each fall and imported new bees every spring.
- workerbeehoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Today all three of Jerry and Pia's sons — Peter, Tom, and David — run the business as a true family enterprise.
- workerbeehoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-10
In 1984, searching for milder winters, the family moved the entire operation to British Columbia's Fraser Valley, becoming one of the first to pioneer over-wintering techniques.
- workerbeehoney.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
10609 McGrath Rd, Rosedale, BC V0X 1X2
- albertabeekeepers.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
APIARY TECHNICIAN NOC 84120 (4 seasonal positions available, January to November 2026)
- albertabeekeepers.ca · accessed 2026-09-09
Positions are in Rosedale, British Columbia with summer months spent in Boyle, Alberta.
- theglobeandmail.com · accessed 2026-09-09
said Peter Awram, who runs Worker Bee Honey Co., a family business in Rosedale, B.C., and Boyle, Alta.
- theglobeandmail.com · accessed 2026-09-09
The U.S. said this week it will impose a 50-per-cent tariff on imports of Canadian honey
- content.govdelivery.com · accessed 2026-09-09
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