US about-face on farm subsidies reflects vagaries of China trade deal
Beijing did not commit to a timeline for ramping up imports to meet the 2020 goal of $36.5bn
11 March 2020 - 16:11
Chicago — As US President Donald Trump touted the signing of a US-China trade deal in January, he told cash-strapped farmers they would soon need bigger tractors and “a little more land” to meet additional Chinese demand for US agricultural goods.
His administration assured farmers that they would no longer need the billions in aid the government had provided to offset their losses from the trade war Trump launched with China in 2017...
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