this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2025
147 points (98.7% liked)

politics

26393 readers
2493 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

With just one and a half months to go before the year ends, China still hasn’t ramped up purchases of U.S. soybeans under a trade agreement made with Donald Trump a few weeks ago.

After he met with Xi Jinping at a regional economic summit in South Korea, the White House said Beijing committed to buying at least 12 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans during the final two months of 2025 and buying at least 25 million tons annually in 2026, 2027, and 2028.

That’s after China hadn’t placed any orders for U.S. soybeans this harvest season amid the trade war with Trump, creating panic among farmers who had relied on the world’s second largest economy as their top export market.

Meanwhile, Beijing has turned to Brazil and Argentina for soybeans, which are also cheaper as they don’t face retaliatory Chinese tariffs. Now, China has imported so much supply from South America it has a glut of soybeans.

top 8 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Did anyone sign any contracts or is this article just talking about Trump promises?

Those export curbs cleared the way for Trump to lower his fentanyl-related tariff on China to 10% from 20%. Beijing has suggested removing that remaining 10% is necessary for it to reverse its own retaliatory duty on U.S. agricultural commodities, Suderman explained.

“Unfortunately, time is running out for the removal of that 10% tariff to make much of a difference in the purchase of U.S. soybeans, with cheaper new crop Brazilian supplies already booked to start arriving at Chinese ports in February,” he added. “The door hasn’t closed yet for U.S. soybeans, but we’re getting very close to that point.”

[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I think that the article's title and general framing misses an important point that The White House is the source claiming that China made those promises. Which, under normal circumstances, would be a pretty reliable source, but under the current administration is highly suspect.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago

Like so many people with basic economic education, I was wondering for the longest time how Trump squared being elected on the promise to lower prices with his predilection for tariffs. I assume Xi Jinping did the same and decided American tariffs were all bluster.

Trump had to lower the tariffs on China before people started buying Christmas toys, regardless of soybeans. He may even have invented the help for the soybean farmers because he didn't want to pay subsidies. Meanwhile, it's not just that China is unlikely to buy soybeans from America as long as Trump is President, they'd be fools to.

[–] tla@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yet another example of so-called "free market economics". Amazing how the USA cries foul when China legitimately decides to buy soy beans from a BRICS country because of Taco's ridiculous tariffs. Trump's economic illiteracy is not China's problem. It has many other partnerships in the world. If the west didn't want the Chinese economy outgrowing it's own then perhaps the greedy capitalists shouldn't have outsourced their production to Chinese cheap labour. But capitalism == greed and exploitation, so no surprise. You've made your bed, now lie in it.