A customer walks past cooking oil displayed on shelves inside an Ocean Supercenter store, operated by City Mart Holdings Co., in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo by Brent Lewin/Bloomberg files

U.S. President Donald Trump said he might stop trade in cooking oil with China , injecting fresh tensions into the trade relationship between the world’s two largest economies.

Trump on Tuesday cast the potential move as retaliation against Beijing for its refusal to buy American soybeans, which he said “is an Economically Hostile Act” that is purposefully “causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers.”

“We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need

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