US Soybean farmers get warning from China
US soybean exporters have received some warning signals on product quality from the world's largest importer, a month after US President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing secured them a juicy deal selling an extra 12 million tons of their produce to China.
On Dec 15, China's quarantine authorities said they had destroyed 6.8 tons of genetically engineered soybeans from the United States, citing mildew contamination as the reason, according to the bulletin on November substandard agricultural imports released by China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
Another complaint is impurities in US soybeans, which are more often higher in shipments from the eastern US than those from the West Coast, according to a quarantine official at the Chinese Embassy in Washington.
