{"id":111534,"date":"2025-11-01T00:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/111534\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T00:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:31:17","slug":"u-s-soybean-farmers-will-see-rapid-relief-bessent-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/111534\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Soybean Farmers Will See Rapid Relief, Bessent Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"e141zjhk0 emotion-1cdur5g-FormattedText\">China will buy 12 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans by January, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. The U.S. exported 27 million metric tons of soybeans to China last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e141zjhk0 emotion-1cdur5g-FormattedText\">Bessent spelled out some of the details of the trade deal in a Thursday interview on Fox Business Network\u2019s Mornings with Maria. Bessent traveled with President Trump to South Korea for negotiations with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e141zjhk0 emotion-1cdur5g-FormattedText\">China has used its soybean purchases as a lever of influence in the talks. It switched its purchases from U.S. farmers to exports in Argentina and Brazil earlier this year. Farmers have objected that the U.S. is providing financial assistance to Argentina while Americans suffer the side effects of the trade war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China will buy 12 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans by January, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-111534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}