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China’s soybean imports are forecast to fall to 95 million metric tons (MMT) in marketing year (MY) 20/21 due to excessive beginning stocks following a buying spree in MY19/20.

While trade tensions and China’s retaliatory tariffs slashed U.S. agricultural exports to China in 2018 and 2019,

Marketing year (MY) 20/21 soybean imports are forecast at 95 MMT, an increase of 4 MMT compared to the June update based on larger stocks and growing soybean meal feed use for the expanding swine...

Chinese authorities approved four rapeseed meal processing facilities for export to China.

China’s swine sector recovery and poultry production growth are expected to push up soybean meal use for feed during the coming marketing year.

China continues to allow imports of Canadian canola seed though China recently reduced the acceptable dockage limits on imported canola and did not reinstate the licenses of Canada’s two largest...

This year China’s hog and sow herds will begin to recover from the impacts of African Swine Fever, pushing up protein meal feed use, soybean crush volume, and total oilseed demand...

In 2019, there have been no revisions or amendments to China’s regulatory approval process for agriculture biotechnology.

On February 18, 2020, China announced a new round of tariff exclusions for U.S. agricultural commodities impacted by the retaliatory Section 301-tariffs levied by China.

On January 21, 2020, China notified 642 maximum residue limits (MRLs) on 65 pesticides in food to the World Trade Organization SPS Committee as G/SPS/N/CHN/1149.

On February 6, 2020, the State Council Tariff Commission announced that China would cut in half the additional tariffs for certain commodities from the United States on February 14, 2020.