As the midterm “blue wave” threatens to further complicate US-China relations, American agricultural exporters are calling on Washington to focus on delivering the trade deals already agreed with Beijing and ending a period of damaging policy uncertainty.
With shipments of key products such as soybeans needing to be planned months – or sometimes an entire year – ahead, US farmers are in need of stability after last year’s trade war.
“Agriculture is … an industry with long production cycles, so many things need to be planned well in advance,” said Frank Zhou, managing director of Cargill China, the Chinese arm of US agribusiness group Cargill.