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...“China will import roughly 80bn tons of soya beans this year and we want those to be American soya beans and to keep our market share....
Planes, beans and automobiles in play as Trump tries to increase exports
...“If soy beans and hog production are hurt by trade restrictions that is going to be a lot of pressure on rural voters,” Mr Green said....
...are also expressing frustration about the pace of talks and the ongoing uncertainty, which is already causing Mexican buyers, in particular, to look for other sources of commodities such as pork and soya beans...
...Shawn Baker, director of nutrition at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said that Nigeria was lagging behind other countries....
...While everything around it — the cabbage slaw and black bean and corn salsa — is delicious, the avocado itself is a flavourless mush....
...The question does not have as clear an answer as you might think, as FT trade correspondent Shawn Donnan reports....
...Shawn Donnan writes about why Mr Trump and Xi Jinping may not be able to avoid a trade war at this point....
...Follow Shawn Donnan on Twitter: @sdonnan Chart of the week Here's a counter-intuitive thought: Is Donald Trump causing the rest of the G20 to become less protectionist?...
...Because China is the largest export market for crops such as soya beans, US officials argue that its regulatory delays and decisions can hold back research and innovation into new seed varieties....
...Cash Rules Everything Around Me* “Dough”, “paper”, “cabbage”, “brash”, “scrilla, “chips”, “bread”, “bacon”, “Gs”, “beans”, “lettuce”, “clams”. “Mozarella”, “quiche”, “cream”. “Benjamins”....
...As the FT’s trade guru Shawn Donnan wrote recently in an analysis of US trade data: The largest import shift was in miscellaneous vegetable substances; imports in this sector increased by 115 per cent to...
...The specialities here include sirloin steak with potatoes and rice, and feijõada, traditional stew with black beans and pork, beef and sausage....
...This year the Tim Peaks online shop has broadened from coffee beans to include branded mugs and T-shirts....
...Britain’s military establishment has for years seen Mr Brown as the bean-counter attacking its budget. Mr Brown’s defenders argue that he was attacking only inefficiency in the Ministry of Defence....
...But nobody wants to die in anonymity, discovered weeks later in a flat full of cans of baked beans....
...Even my vegetarian daughter was so moved by his description to tolerate Arthur Bryant’s barbecue in Kansas City, with its immortal burnt ends, even though her baked beans concealed a fist-sized ham hock...
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