{"id":296990,"date":"2025-12-03T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296990\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:13:09","slug":"china-is-reaching-correct-cadence-to-complete-promised-us-soybean-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296990\/","title":{"rendered":"China is reaching &#8216;correct cadence&#8217; to complete promised US soybean purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">NEW YORK, Dec 3 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent \u200bsaid he was very \u200coptimistic about the U.S. economy next \u200cyear, given increased capital investments, but said interest rate cuts were needed given a \u2060weakening in \u200ccertain sectors including housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Bessent told the New \u200dYork Times Dealbook summit that China was on track to complete \u200bits commitments under a \u200cU.S.-China trade agreement, including the purchase of 12 million metric tons of soybeans, which he said would be finished \u2060by the end \u200bof February 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;I \u200bwill say that China is on track to \u200dkeep every \u2060part of the deal, every part of the deal,&#8221; \u2060he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Andrea Shalal \u200cand David Lawder; Editing \u200cby Chizu Nomiyama )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, Dec 3 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent \u200bsaid he was very \u200coptimistic about the U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31603,84,891,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-296990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bessent","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}