{"id":361048,"date":"2025-12-22T05:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/361048\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T05:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:09:15","slug":"china-reportedly-sticking-to-its-soybean-deal-with-us-but-worries-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/361048\/","title":{"rendered":"China reportedly sticking to its soybean deal with US, but worries remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is estimated to have secured more than half of the 12 million tonnes of soybeans that <a data-entity-bundle=\"article\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"071d4ea7-3796-41c6-8dcd-96a6746ca317\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3331823\/china-signals-soybean-appetite-spark-many-deals-us-farmers-if-prices-are-right?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington says Beijing committed to purchase by early 2026<\/a>, based on US government data and market conventions that analysts say usually indicate China, though little has been shipped so far, heightening concerns over potential cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>While the <a data-entity-bundle=\"topics\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"0ec2f023-a093-4dee-985d-e6ca0832bcfc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-department-agriculture-usda\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US Department of Agriculture (USDA)<\/a> has officially documented nearly 4 million tonnes in sales explicitly to China, 3 million metric tonnes currently sit in the \u201cunknown destinations\u201d category. The practice of initial \u201cunknown\u201d bookings, later routed to China, is a long-standing pattern in the soybean trade, often used by state buyers to stabilise prices before physical shipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China is estimated to have secured more than half of the 12 million tonnes of soybeans that Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,95,46,30399,155394,155397,19235,43121,155396,155393,24689,155395,3642],"class_list":["post-361048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-scmp","tag-sean-lusk","tag-sinograin","tag-south-america","tag-soybeans","tag-stonex","tag-unknown-destinations","tag-usda","tag-walsh-trading-inc","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}