Two cargo ships were headed for port terminals near New Orleans, Louisiana, this week to load the first shipments of U.S. soybeans to China since May. That’s according to a shipping schedule seen by Reuters.
A third ship was heading to a Texas Gulf Coast terminal to be loaded with Chinese-bound U.S. sorghum in the coming days. That’s the first American shipment of the feed grain to China since the middle of March.
China has booked almost two million metric tons of U.S. soybeans and a smaller volume of wheat since a meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Xi (Zhee) Jinping in late October.
U.S. farmers and grain traders have been pushing for shipments to resume heading to China after the Asian nation stopped buying crops for months because of a trade war with Washington.
The White House said Beijing agreed to buy 12 million tons of soybeans by the end of 2025.
Source: Reuters, NAFB News Service
