Trump Tariffs Cause China to Replace US Farmers

Sunday, April 20, 2025

American soybean farmers are worried about whether their biggest customer will keep buying. More than half of US soybean exports went to China in 2024, but the price just went up 135 per cent under the tariffs China installed in response to President Donald Trump's 145 per cent tax on Chinese imports. "Farmers deal with bad weather. We deal with pests. We deal with tractors breaking," said Ms Heather Feuerstein, who owns a farm near Grand Rapids, Michigan. "That's our lives." But tariffs? "This is a threat to our continued way of life," she said.

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"At the same time, [Trump] could, inadvertently, be helping soybean farmers in Brazil and Argentina. The two South American countries produce 52 per cent of the world's soybeans, including 40 per cent from Brazil alone, compared with 28 per cent for the United States. No other nation is close."

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