{"id":37963,"date":"2025-09-23T06:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/37963\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:31:09","slug":"china-prepares-for-long-us-soybean-stand-off-with-huge-brazilian-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/37963\/","title":{"rendered":"China prepares for long US soybean stand-off with huge Brazilian imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s soybean imports remained at historically high levels in August, with companies making huge purchases from Brazil and other South American growers as they prepared for a protracted trade stand-off between Beijing and Washington.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">More than 12.2 million tonnes of soybeans entered China in August \u2013 the second-highest monthly total the country has ever recorded after May\u2019s 13.9 million tonne inflow, according to detailed Chinese customs data released over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Brazil provided 10.49 million tonnes \u2013 or more than 85 per cent \u2013 of those imports, as a bumper crop allowed China to increase its purchases from the South American nation by 2.4 per cent year on year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China has now logged four consecutive months of record soybean imports, as the country tries to hedge against potential supply uncertainty in the fourth quarter caused by the ongoing trade war with the United States.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The harvest season for soybeans varies across regions, with the US season due to begin in the autumn. That means the impact of Chinese tariffs on US agricultural products will begin to be felt more acutely towards the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The US was once China\u2019s largest supplier of soybeans \u2013 which is a key input to the country\u2019s animal feed industry \u2013 but Beijing has taken steps to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3322524\/no-us-trade-deal-china-continues-brazil-pivot-soybean-supply?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reduce its reliance on American crops<\/a> as tensions between the two powers have risen in recent years.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Imports from the US reached 227,000 tonnes last month, an uptick of 12.3 per cent year on year, though the amount still represented a small fraction of China\u2019s total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s soybean imports remained at historically high levels in August, with companies making huge purchases from Brazil and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3858,460,2102,1347,72,114,29137,113,61,60,23788,29136,29135,2737,29133,90,29134,19124,1519],"class_list":{"0":"post-37963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-august","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-brazil","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-chinese-customs","15":"tag-economy","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-south-american","19":"tag-soybean-imports","20":"tag-trade-agreement","21":"tag-trade-war","22":"tag-uruguay","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-agricultural-products","25":"tag-us-china-trade-talks","26":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}