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December 7, 2024

USTR, USDA report: China 71 percent of the way toward meeting 2020 ag commitments

By Dan Dupont  / October 23, 2020 at 5:30 PM
China has purchased more than 70 percent of the U.S. agricultural products it pledged to buy during the first year of its phase-one trade deal with the U.S., according to a new report from the Trump administration that relies on a new method of tracking purchases. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Agriculture Department on Friday released what they billed as “ an interim report ” on the deal’s agricultural trade provisions, asserting that the agreement “already...

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