American Soy Beans in China – level 2

19-12-2018 07:00

China usually buys tonnes of soy beans from the USA, but a trade war began between the two countries in July.

Normally, China buys more than half of the soy bean annual export from the USA. This number dropped by 94% since the war began. Such news is terrible for American soy bean farmers.

However, things may be going back to normal. As of December 14, China purchased more than 1 million metric tonnes of soy beans.

Difficult words: annual (yearly), export (the things which a country sells to another country), purchase (buy).

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