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- world@lemmy.world
China imported no soybeans from the U.S. for a second straight month in October even as total imports surged to a record high on purchases from South America, with buyers aiming to avert supply disruptions amid trade tensions with Washington.
Data from China’s General Administration of Customs on Thursday showed U.S. soybean imports in October fell to zero from 541,434 metric tons a year earlier.
The decline followed China’s imposition of high tariffs on U.S. soybeans earlier in the year and the depletion of previously harvested U.S. supplies, or old-crop beans. China is the world’s biggest soybean importer.
They’re not showing any signs of doing as such.
Honestly despite being an ocean away the united states has already chipped in a large amount of real aid. The EU, being rich countries themselves, should not be relying so heavily on a nation that was already on the brink of fascism.
Oh I’m saying they’re sitting on their hands and expecting a US administration change and business to resume, but if it becomes clear Trump is never going to die and just be replaced by a continual cycle of more and more unhinged nationalists (As is quite likely) they will probably start throwing some actual funding at the problem.