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Europeans Scoop Up U.S. Soybeans

Trade tensions between the U.S. and China have triggered a flurry of purchases by European buyers

Soybeans

According to Reuters, escalating tensions between the United States and China have triggered a flurry of U.S. soybean purchases by European buyers, in one of the first signs that trade tariff threats lobbed between the world’s top two economies are disrupting global commodity trade flows.

News of the sales, confirmed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday, helped to underpin benchmark Chicago Board of Trade soybean prices after President Trump threatened more tariffs on an additional $100 billion of Chinese goods.

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