Trump, who is dedicated to digging a hole for China, unexpectedly dug a hole for the United States first, and this hole is that China's orders are reset to zero.
In the past, September to January of the following year were the peak season for American soybeans, and at this time, China's orders were piled up, but this year it was different.
my country has not ordered any import orders for US soybeans soybeans soybeans, which makes American soybean farmers miserable. The President of the US Soybean Association once again warned that "the situation is extremely serious."
It is at this critical moment that Trump once again threw his card against China. So, can this trump card solve the severe situation facing American soybean and soybean farmers?
Trump's "vote house" is already in a miserable way
Recently, a video spread wildly in the United States about an Arkansas farmer begging Trump to reach an agreement with China so that they can save them or they will go bankrupt.
The farmer in the video is a soybean farmer in Kentucky and chairman of the American Soybean Association. Interestingly, he was once a big fan of Trump, but now he still asks Trump to save the farm.
In fact, this is not the first time that the president of the American Soybean Association has called for help from Trump. On August 19, local time, he wrote a letter to Trump, saying that "U.S. soybean growers are facing unprecedented financial pressure. With the arrival of the harvest season, the later the United States reaches an agreement with China, the greater the impact American soybean farmers will be."
So he hopes the Trump administration will prioritize soybean topics when negotiating trade with China. In fact, the Trump administration has really considered it. After all, among the 444 agricultural-dependent counties in the United States, Trump won more than 77% of the votes in the 2024 election, and the turnout rate in many counties exceeded 80%.
It is obvious that they believe and support Trump's concept of "America First" and are also looking forward to Trump's commitment to "reduce taxes, reduce supervision, and protect local industries" during the election.
However, it is worth mentioning that at the same time when China and the United States announced that the 90-day tariff suspension period would continue to be extended by 90 days on August 12, Trump wrote on his social media, "China is worried about the shortage of soybeans, and the great American farmers can produce the best quality soybeans, so I hope China can quickly increase the volume of soybean orders by 3 times."
Trump, who can describe his unsalable soybean status, still cannot hide his dilemma of "heroes are short-splenty".
Because he made at least two wrong judgments and one wrong behavior, on the one hand, China has never been worried about the shortage of soybeans, and on the other hand, China has a huge market, and as buyers, we have no shortage of choices. We do not buy soybeans from the United States, and soybeans from Latin American countries such as Brazil.
So, Trump's arrogant attitude and wrong judgment of the situation are the reasons why American soybeans are unsalable. Of course, the core reason why American soybean farmers suffer from the fact that Trump insists on launching a trade war.
It was Trump's tariff policy that allowed American soybean farmers to cut ties with their biggest buyers, causing crops to fail to sell, price crashes and debt accumulation.
In fact, the misery of American soybean farmers and soybean industries is just a real microcosm of American society and American agriculture, because not only the soybean industry is in a dilemma of unsalable sales, the share of exports of various agricultural and sideline products such as corn, wheat, pork to China is decreasing.
Moreover, Trump's policy of deporting illegal immigrants has reduced American farms by a lot of labor, and farms in many states have experienced harvest delays.
As Trump's "most loyal" fan group, the midterm election is coming soon. How should Trump solve the demands of the "fans"?
Trump also wants to increase taxes and put pressure on China and India
When Trump put pressure on other countries or discusses trade agreements with other countries, Trump's frequent demands are to require other countries to open their agricultural product markets to the United States. Japan and India have a deep understanding of this, that is, to force them to accept American agricultural products through tariff threats.
It is worth mentioning that Japan has accepted this, but India is still holding the pressure from the United States, because once India, as a major agricultural power, opens its agricultural market, the foundation of Indian agriculture will definitely be eroded by the United States.
However, the most outrageous thing is that while the president of the American Soybean Association was still calling on the Trump administration to reach an agreement with China as soon as possible, Trump wanted to make concessions through extreme pressure.
Just as the prerequisite for supporting Europe to send troops to Ukraine is to require them to put pressure on China in the economic field. Recently, when Trump was talking to EU officials, he asked the EU to impose 100% tariffs on China and India.
Although they gave the reason that China and India are still buying Russian oil, Trump certainly hopes to borrow the EU's 100% tariff on us to allow China and India to open up the agricultural product market for the United States.
It can only be said that pressure and tariff threats cannot solve the dilemma of American agriculture. Equal dialogue and negotiation are the only way out, otherwise the crisis of American agriculture will only get deeper and deeper.
