U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins on a combine with farm owner Tyler Everett on Oct. 30, 2025. Beijing's tariff on American soybeans remains at about 24 per cent, despite a 10-percentage-point reduction following a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

New data the Agriculture Department released Friday created serious doubts about whether China will really buy millions of bushels of American soybeans like the Trump administration touted last month after a high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

The USDA report released after the government reopened showed only two Chinese purchases of American soybeans since the summit in South Korea that totaled 332,000 metric tons. That’s well short of the 12

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